Injured Rangers International FC of Enugu player, Ifeanyi Egwim, is to be flown abroad for medical treatment on Monday.
The Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, The Eagle Online learnt, gave the order to fly out Egwim on Sunday night.
Edwin, a substitute in the last match of Enugu Rangers against El-Kanemi Warriors in the 2015/2016 Nigeria Professional Football League, was stretchered out in the 88th minute of the match.
Egwim, who replaced Ocheme Edoh in the 83rd minute, was bearing down on goal in the 88th minute after a pass down the flank had split the visiting side’s defence line open, when goalkeeper Yekeen Kazeem, who was by now open and defenceless, advanced on him for a charge, which fell the towering forward.
As referee Ferdinand Udoh pointed at the penalty kick spot and handed the goalkeeper a red card, Egwim’s two teammates who ran towards him to bring him up started crying.
Other players who ran to the spot just inside the El-Kanemi Warriors box could not bear to continue looking, with many turning away and placing their hands on their heads.
Even referee Udoh could not bear to look further and his gestures thereafter showed the extent of the injury.
Medical personnel quickly called for the ambulance, which took Egwim, who look to have been injured just below the knee, away for further treatment.
The mood was further expressed minutes later when Chisom Egbuchulam scored the resultant penalty kick in the 90th minute for the match’s fourth goal and to complete his hat-trick.
Egbuchulam refused to jubilate the goal, even after some teammates rushed to him, lifting his shirt to his face and bending double to weep.
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