Soccer Player Sidelined Due to Injury from 'Pretty Hefty Sneeze'

Victor Adeboyejo, a striker for Ontario's Bolton Wanderers, is struggling with a back injury caused by a “powerful” sneeze, the team manager says

A soccer player has been sidelined due to an injury he sustained — from a sneeze.

Victor Adeboyejo, a striker with the Ontario soccer team the Bolton Wanderers, had to pull out of a game after hurting his back, his team manager said.

“Victor has been suffering with a nasty back injury and a sneeze set it off yesterday [Sept. 2], believe it or not,” Ian Evatt told The Bolton News. 

“We have had it scanned and should have the results very soon,” Evatt told the outlet. “But then he had a pretty hefty sneeze – now Victor is a powerful boy and even his sneezes are powerful.”

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Evatt shared that the 26-year-old “felt a bit of a crack in between his ribs and we are hopeful it is just a cartilage or muscular issue but until we had a good look at the scan we won’t know.”

“Sneezing is known to induce low back pain,” one study from the National Library of Medicine says, which says posture can reduce the impact on your body from a powerful sneeze: “Placing both hands on a table or otherwise maintaining an upright body posture appears to be beneficial for reducing low back load when sneezing.”

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Significant injuries can occur from sneezes. Adele — who has shared her struggle with ongoing back issues — said she "slipped my first disc" at age 15 from a sneeze. And in June, a man who recently had surgery sneezed so powerfully he burst his surgical staples, causing parts of his intestine to spill out.

Evatt joked about how Adeboyejo is his latest player to be sidelined with an injury, telling The Bolton News, “I have to start having a long look at myself when players start getting injured sneezing.”

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“That is just the way things seem to be going at the moment, but we have to deal with it.”

As for Adeboyejo’s future with the team, Evatt said, “Victor will be going nowhere, absolutely nowhere.”

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