{"id":296859,"date":"2026-05-17T06:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296859\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:16:11","slug":"dynamo-defender-diadie-samassekou-taken-off-field-in-ambulance-with-apparent-head-injury-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296859\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynamo defender Diadie Samassekou taken off field in ambulance with apparent head injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Houston Dynamo defender Diadie Samassekou was taken off the field by ambulance after suffering an apparent head injury against Vancouver on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Dynamo said Samassekou was alert and taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Samassekou was injured while contesting a ball inside the penalty box and lay unconscious on the field as medical personnel ran out. Two of Samassekou\u2019s teammates helped carry the stretcher onto the field.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old from Mali is in his second season with the Dynamo after beginning his career in Europe. He also has been a member of the Mali national team.<\/p>\n<p>Houston won 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Houston Dynamo defender Diadie Samassekou was taken off the field by ambulance after suffering an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9121,108060,17187,584,56,23504,58,57,730,731,154,27,1760],"class_list":["post-296859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-diadie-samassekou","tag-head-injuries","tag-health","tag-houston","tag-houston-dynamo","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-mls-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-tx-state-wire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}