BEIJING, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Shenyang Ginde player Liu Jianye will miss the rest of the domestic Chinese Super League season after suffering a split scrotum during a club match, local media reported on Monday.
The 19-year-old midfielder's injury, sustained after Xiamen
Lanshi defender Meng Yao kicked him after 15 minutes of Sunday's
game, was the latest in a series to plague the northeastern
China club, the Beijing News said.
Liu's injury would require an operation and at least 10
stitches, the newspaper said.
Last month, Ginde paid 1.3 million yuan ($164,000) in
compensation to former player and Guinea international, Ousmane
Bangoura, who lost the sight of his right eye after his eyeball
was ruptured by an opponent's studs in a club match against
Qingdao Luneng in July.
Ginde, lying third from bottom of the Chinese Super League
with three games left in the 2006 season, also lost defenders
Wang Jiaduo to a broken nose and Wang Qiang to a broken
cheekbone earlier in the year.
'Ginde has had four serious injuries this season and
countless light injuries,' Ginde's Dutch coach, Martin Koopman,
told a news conference after the game.
'The whole club is like a hospital. Our players have
suffered too much.'
