{"id":802392,"date":"2026-05-17T07:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/802392\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:39:20","slug":"dynamo-defender-diadie-samassekou-taken-off-field-in-ambulance-with-apparent-head-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/802392\/","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":3,"featured_media":802393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[2733,326696,36707,210,4345,9499,36220,221,62,358,3187,5028],"class_list":{"0":"post-802392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-athlete-injuries","9":"tag-diadie-samassekou","10":"tag-head-injuries","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-dynamo","14":"tag-mls-soccer","15":"tag-soccer","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-tx-state-wire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116588784339526137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}