An amateur goalkeeper in Bosnia-Herzegovina recently played a full football match even though he was unknowingly shot in the head. Sometimes fact really is stranger than fiction…
A 51-year-old amateur footballer called Dusko Krtalica played a game he’ll never forget over the weekend after he was shot in the head by a stray bullet without even noticing. While Krtalica complained about some slight head pains during the match, he put it down to hitting his head off the post and thought nothing more of it.
However, after the match Krtalica started complaining that his arm was numb and that he had difficulty speaking. He was then taken to the Department of Emergency Medicine Hospital in Kosevo where doctors took an X-Ray only to find a 9mm bullet lodged in his head.
“During operation a foreign body was removed from the head of the patient. After the surgery he was transferred to the Intensive Care in Neurosurgery Clinic. For now his vital signs are stable,” said Biljana Jandric, spokeswoman for Clinical Center of the University in Sarajevo.
Police later arrested a 42-year-old man who was apparently firing 9mm bullets into the air in celebration after attending a wedding. According to reports, police found several bullet shells around the pitch.
Maybe that explains why some players go down so easy…
