The guy didnt die, he suffered a siezure and passed out. He played a week later.

It hurt's my ear's when i whatch these video's.

I suggest you whatch them with the sound turned off.

Take care.

Regards
Lee

There's that one (forgive me if its the same dude, I didn't watch the vid cos it wouldn't load in FF or IE) that has to wear a special cover now (he's a goalie) after being hit in the head, it looked really weird when I first saw it (I HATE football, but my other half loves it). He was critical for a bit, but eventually recovered.

Yeah, that's Petr Cech, the Chelsea and Czech Republic Goalie.

Originally posted by TheBandit795
Uksceptic is right. He played the week after. I think it was either the Egyptian, UAE or Algerian league.

Still pretty interesting if that was a seizure of some sort, looked a lot like the training exercises that he would do all the time - if he had no control did all his muscles just revert to muscle memory?

Or equally as likely this was just his unique way of running off an injury - I know I've done some pretty amusing things right after hurting my self.

That video actually shows a perfect example of inner ear damage. Your inner ear really has nothing to do with hearing and more to do with balance. Theres a tiny bit of fluid in there resting on some neves. Depending on what nerves are activated, thats wich way is down. Its like when you spin around for 2 minutes the liquid is pressed into 2 different directions due to centrifical force and you get "dizzy". it seems like the world is tilting over and you have to lean waaaay in one direction to stay up. This will happen whenever each "balance center" recives a different signal than the other because gravity usally pulls them both in the same direction.

I'd bet the farm one of these "balance centers" got damaged in the collision and now he's trying to compensate for what he thinks is a tilting world by bending backwards to keep his balance.