Golling captain

A blow led to 16 days in hospital

Golling captain Florian Dygruber (center) is fit again after a period of illness.(Bild: Andreas Tröster)

Florian Dygruber celebrated his comeback after a long period of suffering. The Golling captain was in such a bad way after a blow to his thigh that he had to undergo four operations. Despite his comeback, Golling remained unsuccessful in the Salzburg League.

Almost every footballer suffers a blow to the thigh once in their career. However, it is rather unusual for this to result in four operations. But it happened to Golling captain Florian Dygruber. In the third round of the regional cup against Elixhausen on August 21, he suffered a blow that "escalated a bit", he describes.

Afterwards, he spent 16 days in hospital because his leg kept causing problems. His leg was cut open because of the bruise. An artery was then injured, and later the thigh became inflamed. The doctors therefore inserted a special device, which was removed after seven days. The 28-year-old underwent four general anesthetic operations.

"It really wasn't funny. I kept hearing that I had to have another operation," said the kicker, who went through a difficult mental phase.

However, this ended last weekend at the latest, when he celebrated his unplanned comeback in the Salzburg league against Straßwalchen: "I didn't want to do anything more in the fall, to slowly build myself up again. But since things aren't going the way we want them to, I wanted to help the team." But even with him, the Tennengau team lost 1:2, meaning that the 14th-placed team in the league are still plagued by relegation worries.