Seattle Soundlers FC Goalkeeper Stephen Free Stopage took a casual knee to the head with the remaining seconds in time and was taken out of the ground in an ambulance during his team’s 1-1 draw. Columbus crew On Sunday.
Freei jumped forward to make a drama on a free kick, and as he came down, his head collided with a crew player’s knee. Free Lumen fell into Turf in the field and the teammates of the team indicated the sideline for help.
Fry Said in a social media post Sunday night that he was resting at home and “I am incredibly grateful to all employees who took care of me.”
He wrote, “Whatever echoes is all messages, calls and love that I have met many of you,” he wrote. “Thank you – truly …. I mean I can put in words. I feel support, and I am grateful to each of you.”
Seattle coach Brian Shametzer and Crew’s Wilfred Nancy agreed to call the game with Columbus due to a corner kick.
As the Freasy Waiting Ambulance reached, the fans of Seattle chanting his first name.
A emotional Shametzer thanked the crew coach Nancy after the match to stop the match, saying “Everyone knew that the match should have been stopped. So thanks Verfrid.”
39 -year -old freie has played for sounders since 2014. He helped Seattle win the MLS Cup in 2016 and 2019, and was named MLS Cup MVP in 2016. He was an all-star in 2017.
Born in Switzerland, Freei’s family moved to the United States when he was a teenager and was a standout at the University of California.
Paul rothrock As the sounders scored a goal for Seattle in the 43rd minute, while Diego Rossi scored for the crew.
Freei, retiring at the end of the season, had three savings for Seattle (8-6-6).
Columbus (10–3-8), who had won three in a row, is straight out in four.
Rothrocrock removed one-touch shot, from a feed Kalani Kosa-RenziMade it 1–1 from the left centers of the area.
Rossi gave Columbus a 1-0 lead in the 27th minute. Ibrahim AliuOn the counter-atac, a fully placed cross was slipped between the three defenders for a charging Rossi for the first-touch finish from the point-blank range.
The sounders against Columbus are 8-4-6, including a 4–0 road win in the only meeting between clubs in the previous season.
Kosa-Renzi was shown yellow cards in the 87th minute and the second-minute stoppage and sounders played a man down in the last few minutes.
Ivan Bush Closed a shot for Columbus.
Information of Associated Press was used in this report.
