A footballer who suffered a brutal KO was rescued by a quick thinking act of heroism from his teammate.<\/p>\n
Jairo da Silva was left in a heap on the floor after being kicked in the head.<\/p>\n
Watch the biggest Aussie sports & the best from overseas LIVE on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n The Johor Darul Ta\u2019zim star was knocked out by Ah-Ahli player Ali Majrashi in an AFC Champions League quarter-final clash.<\/p>\n Players rushed to help Jairo and called for the medics to rush onto the pitch.<\/p>\n When no immediate help was forthcoming, Johor captain Natxo Insa frantically ran over to the touchline to grab a stretcher.<\/p>\n He furiously kicked a stool that a physio had remained seated on despite Jairo\u2019s need for medical attention.<\/p>\n Insa then carried the stretched over to his stricken teammate and attempted to help as other medics attended to the Brazilian.<\/p>\n Jairo, 33, was rushed to hospital where he underwent an X-ray and CT scan.<\/p>\n He received stitches to his cut lip and was visited by Ah-Ahli staff members, with the Saudi Arabian club passing on their well wishes.<\/p>\n \u201cAl Ahli Club extends its best wishes for a speedy recovery to Johor Darul Ta\u2019zim player following the injury sustained during the match,\u201d a short statement read.<\/p>\n Majrashi, who was sent off for his dangerous fly kick, also visited Jairo and the pair posed for a photo together.<\/p>\n Insa was shown a yellow card for carrying a stretcher onto the pitch, with Johor losing 2-1 despite Majrashi\u2019s dismissal in the 37th minute.<\/p>\n It was Majrashi\u2019s own goal which had given Johor the lead, before ten-man Al-Ahli scored twice either side of halftime to reach the semi-final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A footballer who suffered a brutal KO was rescued by a quick thinking act of heroism from his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-618518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}