Cologne captain Hector complained of dizziness
The former national soccer player Jonas Hector approached Arminia Bielefeld (3:1) in the Bundesliga game of his 1. FC Köln against Arminia Bielefeld (3:1) after a collision at the beginning of the game in the dressing room and then voluntarily had himself replaced. “He had a pretty deep gaping wound,” said Thomas Kessler, head of the licensed players area at FC: “We sewed him up in the catacombs and checked him out. He passed and said it was okay. That’s why he’s back on the field But then he realized that he was getting a bit concerned and felt a bit dizzy. And then it’s exemplary when he says it’s not working.”
Coach Steffen Baumgart explained that Hector “had the feeling that he had problems with some coordination things like assessing the ball”. The Cologne captain collided with Bielefeld’s Alessandro Schöpf after three minutes, then disappeared into the dressing room for nine minutes and came back with a head bandage. Fifteen minutes after his return, he left the field. “We will now subject him to more detailed checks. If players complain of nausea and dizziness, we have a duty of care,” said Kessler: “But after the game I had the impression that he was doing better.”
For Schöpf, things are easier, he is on the pitch until the 85th minute. “It was a kind of boxer cut, but fortunately not that bad,” said interim coach Marco Kostmann: “It was glued over the eye. There’s a small scar, but that’s the appeal of the flaw.” Bielefeld was also so relieved because in the last three games Fabian Klos, Cedric Brunner and Fabian Kunze had to be substituted with head injuries.