Via Daily Mail:

The 17-year-old was sent to the emergency room in the evening after being struck in the gonads during a match in which he wasn’t wearing a protective guard.

Doctors recounting his injury in a case report revealed he ‘immediately developed significant scrotal pain’ after the ball hit him.

But then he threw caution to the wind and returned to the match after a ‘brief rest’, carrying on as normal and then going home afterwards.

Later that day, however, the pain got worse and he was sent to the emergency department at a hospital in Massachusetts. Doctors decided to operate the next day.

And this is a safer sport than football?  I don’t recall any fractured balls happening during a football game.

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