Sunday February 27, on the ground of Tauch Corbières, the team of Olonzac came to win logically (7-17). But quickly, the result of this meeting fell into the background after the serious injury of a player from Hérault. Hit in the neck, Antoni Gally was evacuated to Montpellier hospital before being operated on and placed in an artificial coma.
As the meeting between Tauch-Corbières and Olonzac was coming to an end on Sunday afternoon in Tuchan, Antoni Gally, a substitute and entered in the 66th minute, hit one or more opponents with his head on a clearing. The Olonzac player remained on the ground for long minutes, conscious, but unable to move. After the intervention of the firefighters, it was finally an evacuation by helicopter which took place, to take him to the Guy de Chauliac hospital in Montpellier. He was operated on the same evening for two fractured vertebrae (the 4th and the 5th), then “he was plunged into an artificial coma for at least a week, the time that the hematoma was reabsorbed”said the Hérault club on its social networks.
The president of the Departmental Committee of Aude assures of his support the severely injured player, all his family and the club of Olonzac. The Independent joins in this support and wishes Antoni a speedy recovery.
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