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Samuel Asamoah while playing for Sint Truiden in Belgium Jeroen Meuwsen\/BSR Agency\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Togo midfielder Samuel Asamoah has undergone surgery after fracturing his neck during a game, his club Guangxi Pingguo have said<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 31-year-old\u2019s head collided with a pitchside LED advertising board after being pushed by his opponent during a match against Chongqing Tonglianglong on Sunday in China League One \u2014 the nation\u2019s second division.<\/p>\n His club have since confirmed the midfielder is in a stable condition after successfully undergoing surgery.<\/p>\n On Monday<\/a>, Guangxi Pingguo said Asamoah was at risk of \u201chigh-level paraplegia\u201d \u2014 an inability to voluntarily move the lower parts of the body \u2014\u00a0as he had suffered multiple fractures in his neck and sustaining extensive nerve damage.<\/p>\n Chongqing Tonglianglong midfielder Zhang Zhixiong was shown a yellow card for his push on Asamoah into the pitchside board. There was no intervention from the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) team on the incident.<\/p>\n The Chinese Football Association\u2019s (CFA) referee review panel deemed that while Zhixiong\u2019s foul was reckless, it fell short of a serious foul or violent conduct. Therefore the decision to show Zhixiong a yellow card was correct, as the injury to Asamoah was described as accidental.<\/p>\n \u201cFurthermore it was determined that the placement of the off-field LED advertising displays and their distance from the playing surface (3 meters) were in compliance with international football standards and relevant China League One regulations,\u201d the CFA statement read<\/a>.<\/p>\n Asamoah, who has played seven times for Togo, has spent the majority of his career in Belgian and Romanian football, and joined Guangxi Pingguo earlier this year.<\/p>\n