The Cuban-born Qatari national player Rafael Capote has fractured a cervical vertebra in an accident in Qatar. Capote suffered car-accident after which he was hospitalized and will be out of sport for at least six months. Cuban born player who joined Qatari El Jaish and became the biggest star of Qatari handball in the last few years with title of world’s best left back at WCh 2015 in Doha, fractured the sixth cervical vertebra in an accident suffered in the desert. The vertebra was torn to pieces and also ruptured an intervertebral disc.
The player was treated in Doha by an accredited neurosurgeon, who reconstructed the vertebra by fixing it with a veneer, and gave assurances that his recovery will be complete.
