This weekend, the game in which the Bayern Munich beat Mainz 05 8-1 could end in tragedy, since one of the players of the visiting team at the Allianz Arena He suffered a severe crash and was left lying on the grass with trouble breathing; however, The central referee applied his first aid knowledge and helped the footballer.
It was the 33rd minute of the match when Josuha Guilavogui, former Atlético de Madrid midfielder, collided his head against the knee of his Mainz teammate Anthony Caci while they were fighting for a ball with Thomas Muller, from Bayern, and the impact caused the former to fall to the ground .
“Nodiem Amiri (another Mainz player) hugged me immediately because he realized the seriousness of the situation,” said Patrick Ittrich.the central referee who put Guilavogui in a lateral position to avoid suffocation problems.
“If someone is like this, you have to act quickly. I have experienced many situations like this. She had her tongue back. You have to get it out and then you can breathe again.“, explained the match judge himself in subsequent interviews for the local press.
Moments later, Guilavogui caught his breath, managed to leave the field on his own two feet and was replaced by Edimilson Fernandes.
Once the match was over, the footballer thanked the whistler, his teammates and the doctors who treated him for their help.
“Thank you so much for the quick intervention and help provided to Patrick Ittrichalso to my teammates and the doctors of Mainz 05“, the 33-year-old French midfielder, who has also played for clubs such as Wolfsburg, Saint-Étienne and Girondins de Bordeaux, published on social networks.
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