(CNN) — Togo midfielder Samuel Asamoah broke his neck at the weekend after colliding with an advertising board during a game for Chinese League 1 side Guangxi Pingguo.

The incident occurred after Asamoah was pushed off the pitch during a coming together with an opponent near the touchline on Sunday. He subsequently collided head-first into the boards which surrounded the pitch, before being taken to hospital.

On Monday, Guangxi Pingguo said in a statement that Asamoah “suffered dislocation and fractures of the cervical vertebrae” as well as nerve compression. The club also said that the player was at risk of “high-level paraplegia,” which refers to the inability to use lower parts of the body.

It added the midfielder would be out for the rest of the season and that his future as a pr

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