Spartak Gogniev, player of "Krasnodar" FC, undergoes surgery

Spartak Gogniev, the forwarder of the youth football team "Krasnodar", underwent surgery. At present, the athlete is in hospital.

"At present, Spartak Gogniev is being treated in one of the Krasnodar hospitals. Yesterday, on November 7, he underwent a small surgery to the chest organs. At present, Spartak's health state is satisfactory," stated Vladimir Khashig, General Director of the "Krasnodar" FC.

According to his story, in future the football player is to undergo rehabilitation at the medical centre of the "Krasnodar" FC and in about a month he will be able to start training, the official website of the "Krasnodar" FC reports.

According to unofficial information, on November 7 the state of the football player has deteriorated: Gogniev got sharp chest pain and headaches. "He had got fracture of his ribs; doctors registered bruises throughout his body and average degree of brain concussion," the "Life News" quotes a staff member of the Krasnodar Regional Hospital as saying. "No wonder that, if the patient receives no due medical treatment, the patient's state begins to deteriorate."

Vladimir Khashig has also emphasized that today the FC brought to the Control and Disciplinary Committee (CDC) of the Russian Football Union (RFU) all documents on the incident, which had occurred at the stadium in Grozny during the match with the "Terek" FC, when, according to the reports, Gogniev had suffered. The CDC's meeting, which will consider the issue, was scheduled for November 9.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on November 4 the match of the 30th round of the Championship of Russia on football among the youth teams "Krasnodar" and "Terek" was interrupted in the 73rd minute with the score 0:3 in favour of Krasnodar team because of a brawl between the players on the field. Gogniev scored two out of three goals. Later, the press office of the "Terek" FC called him an initiator of violence. The "Krasnodar" FC believes that their football player was beaten and ask the "Terek" FC to find the guilty persons.

On November 5, Khaidar Alkhanov, Vice-President of the "Terek" FC, and Vladimir Khashig, General Director of the "Krasnodar" FC, issued a joint statement, in which they expressed their regret the incident.