Gaia Merbah, the Algerian goalkeeper of JS Kabylie, suffered a serious injury during his team’s friendly match, which he played on Wednesday against the Ittihad Biskra club, at the new El Hussein Ait Ahmed stadium, in preparation for the start of the new season of the JS Kabylie Algerian League.
This was JS Kabylie’s first match in its new stadium, which will be inaugurated soon, and it is expected that the team will host its official matches during the new season, starting with the match of the Sous-sol olympique for the first round of the local championship.
While the confrontation was taking place in a normal atmosphere, Merbah suffered a serious leg injury, causing the confrontation to be stopped, and identical local sources report that the former goalkeeper of the Moroccan Raja suffered a double fracture of the tibia, an injury that is considered one of the most serious injuries in the world of football.
The 32-year-old JS Kabylie goalkeeper was unable to control himself while receiving first aid from his team’s medical staff, as a video clip showed him screaming loudly due to the intensity of the pain he was suffering immediately after his collision with a Union Biskra player.
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Merbah was quickly transferred to hospital to undergo the appropriate medical examinations before undergoing urgent surgery to treat the injury, with the location and date of the surgery yet to be determined, while his teammates appeared seriously affected by the horror of the shock.
Merbah previously played for several Algerian clubs, such as Nasr Hussein Dey, Amal El Arbaa and Chabab Belouizdad, before joining Morocco’s Raja Athletic Club in 2022, where he played for a while, before being loaned to Ittihad Tanger Club in the 2022-23 season and then officially transferred there in 2022. Last season.
