Thursday, February 18, 2010
Grandstands drama: Pauli-Fan (41) in a coma
Koblenz / Hamburg --
The new grandstands drama (EXPRESS reported): The Saturday's away game in Koblenz accident soccer fan of the second division FC St. Pauli is located in an artificial coma.
This was confirmed by team manager Christian Bönig Sunday Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) on request: "He suffered severe injuries to the head and shoulder." Detailed information on the health of 41 years old trailer did not make it, "Since the incident in Aachen We have become somewhat more cautious with our statements, "said Bönig. "Our fan and our safety officer are trying to contact his relatives."
Because of the accident, the meeting of the TuS against the North Germans were kicked off with a ten-minute delay. "It is particularly hard, the players laid the foundation of the offense to communicate, because some of them had the overthrow of our fans in Aachen personally witness. As is already oppressive memories, "he said Bönig.
In the said opening away game of Aachener Tivoli Arena was a fan of Hamburg on 17 August from a grandstand railing, about six feet plunged into the depths and the fall had suffered life-threatening injuries. The 38-year-old at that time was two weeks in an artificial deep sleep.
"After such events in all of us in the club is a certain emptiness," said Bönig. The fan is now crashed, crashed during the climb over the fences in the stadium grandstand Oberwerth, is currently still in a hospital in the area of Koblenz.
Fan fall clouds the sporty good run of brown whites. With the 5:1 (2:0)-Success in Koblenz, St. Pauli maintaining the track to the Bundesliga. With 32 points, cemented the team of coach Holger Stanislawski the second place.