Nigeria
Professional Football League (NPFL) club, Rivers United have written to the
League Management Company (LMC) to postpone its league game against Ikorodu
United following an auto crash involving the team on Thursday. Rivers
United is billed to face Ikorodu United in an NPFL clash on Sunday, July 30 at
the Yakubu Gowon Stadium.
Seventeen
members of the contingent were treated on Thursday night after the accident
which occurred at around 8pm around the axis of the East West Road Ndele,
Rivers State.
Four members
of the Rivers United team (three players and one official) have since been
admitted at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), Port
Harcourt as a result of serious injuries they sustained after the auto crash.
The affected
players are midfielder, Yusuf Jaiyeola, goalkeeper, Sope Hameed and club
captain Festus Austin.
The Rivers
United doctor, Chukwuemeka Agi explained that the situation with the admitted
official and players ‘is serious’.
“Yusuf’s
situation is the most serious as he suffered a deep cut in the Achilles tendon
which occasioned serious bleeding. Sope
has a laceration while Austin suffered a very serious knee injury. For the
others who were not admitted, we still have not given them the all clear as
they are still being assessed. This is
because in such cases, people usually experience cases of internal bleeding,”
Agi told Rivers United Media.
A
psychologist will also be dispatched to visit the team on Friday.
Rivers
United is currently in third place on the NPFL standings, three points adrift
of the leaders, Wikki Tourists.
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