The referee of the Turkish Cup football match between Batman Petrolspor and Kasımpaşa, Özgür Yankaya, suspended the game on Oct. 30 in the second minute of extra time after a plastic bottle hit a footballer on the head.
Bengali Fode Koita, Kasımpaşa’s Guinean forward player, was hospitalized in Turkey’s southeastern province of Batman.
Paris-born former Montpellier and Blackburn footballer was in stable condition, Demirören News Agency reported.
Kasımpaşa was beating the home team 3-2 at the time of the incident.
