The incident occurred in the very first minute of Chelsea’s Premier League match against Reading, just over a decade ago in October 2006.
An eager Stephen Hunt kicked Cech in the head while chasing down a loose ball.
The extent of the damage was not immediately apparent to anyone, as Cech remained conscious temporarily.
Cech tried to crawl on all fours off the pitch before loosing consciousness on the perimeter of the pitch.
“Close call”
“Things could have been different,” Cech said in an
“The doctors tried not to scare me too much and I never asked too much.
“But if you ask my wife, even now, she does not look too well. For her, the experience was a thousand times worse than it was for me.
“It was a very close call.”
Cech has since gone on to become one of the all-time great Premier League goalkeepers.
“I lost consciousness, then I came round again. Some people, they did not like me too much because I was confused and sometimes when you’re confused you try to fight!”
“The decisions of Bryan and the medical staff and the proximity of Oxford – that’s the combination that gave me a chance. He said.
Since then, the 34-year old Czech Republic stopper has been wearing a unique head gear to protect his skull.
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