Unprecedented; exultant and acrobatic celebrations following the scoring of a goal ended up costing a 23 year old Mizoram based footballer as he succumbed to his grievous spinal and head injuries in a corporate hospital at around 7 am or so this morning..........
Peter Biaksangzuala the 23 year old footballer who grievously injured himself when a celebratory somersault following an equalising goal went horribly and imperceptibly wrong on Tuesday evening was a long term resident of the eastern town of Khawzawl and played as a midfielder for the Bethlehem Vengthlang Club in the nascent Mizoram Premier League............
Peter's side was in arrears for the best part of 63 minutes and trailing their opposition by a 9 th minute goal when Peter equalised with a spectacular and gravity defying volley into the opposition net and set forth those euphoric celebrations that ultimately ended up costing him his fledgling/budding life..........
According to his grieving and disbelieving team mates; Peter contorted his back and legs rather awkwardly and jerkily while in the midst of his third somersault and thereby ended up landing with a resounding thud on his back and neck as a result of which he suffered a life threatening spinal injury as well as bleeding injuries on his head.........
Peter was rushed to the Aizawl Civil Hospital where three operations on his crushed spine failed to repair the hideous injury to any great extent; Peter was wheeled into the ICU and put on respiratory support when his organs began failing him on Friday evening and Peter ended up breathing his last at around 7 am this (Sunday) morning despite the near heroic efforts of the team of doctors attending on him..........
According to the doctors treating him; Peter had pledged both his eyes as well as vital organs during his hospital sojourn and the same will be transplanted to eagerly waiting donors at the earliest........
In hindsight; one only hopes and prays that Peter would have gone easy on his celebratory somersaults and thereby lived to tell the tale.........
Peter Biaksangzuala the 23 year old footballer who grievously injured himself when a celebratory somersault following an equalising goal went horribly and imperceptibly wrong on Tuesday evening was a long term resident of the eastern town of Khawzawl and played as a midfielder for the Bethlehem Vengthlang Club in the nascent Mizoram Premier League............
Peter's side was in arrears for the best part of 63 minutes and trailing their opposition by a 9 th minute goal when Peter equalised with a spectacular and gravity defying volley into the opposition net and set forth those euphoric celebrations that ultimately ended up costing him his fledgling/budding life..........
According to his grieving and disbelieving team mates; Peter contorted his back and legs rather awkwardly and jerkily while in the midst of his third somersault and thereby ended up landing with a resounding thud on his back and neck as a result of which he suffered a life threatening spinal injury as well as bleeding injuries on his head.........
Peter was rushed to the Aizawl Civil Hospital where three operations on his crushed spine failed to repair the hideous injury to any great extent; Peter was wheeled into the ICU and put on respiratory support when his organs began failing him on Friday evening and Peter ended up breathing his last at around 7 am this (Sunday) morning despite the near heroic efforts of the team of doctors attending on him..........
According to the doctors treating him; Peter had pledged both his eyes as well as vital organs during his hospital sojourn and the same will be transplanted to eagerly waiting donors at the earliest........
In hindsight; one only hopes and prays that Peter would have gone easy on his celebratory somersaults and thereby lived to tell the tale.........
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