After a head injury in Dresden
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Felix Götze reacted with disbelief to the events in his club Rot-Weiss Essen’s third division game at Dynamo Dresden (2:2). “Yesterday I cried for the first time in my football career. Not because of the pain, but because it was humiliating to be insulted, spit on and thrown at with a bleeding face and in shock. There are limits and unfortunately they were exceeded yesterday,” Götze wrote on Instagram.
The 26-year-old was taken off the pitch on a stretcher in injury time on Saturday with a bleeding laceration. He was then bid farewell with shouts of “goodbye” from the Dynamo fan block. The stewards also had to protect him from projectiles from the curve with umbrellas. “I love this sport and I appreciate all the fans, because without you football wouldn’t be what it is,” Götze continued. “But despite all the emotions, certain boundaries simply cannot be exceeded – unfortunately that was the case yesterday. There is a person in every jersey worn down on the pitch!”
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Götze was injured shortly before the end during a rescue operation on the line. He collided with Jakob Lemmer from Dresden and was then carried off the pitch. RWE announced on Sunday that the laceration had been stitched up on site: “Further investigations fortunately revealed no abnormalities. Felix is already on his way back to the Ruhr area.”
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