Shocking video shows the moment a 16-year-old Russian soccer player was struck by lightning during training and left in a coma
- A 16-year-old Russian soccer player was left in a coma after being struck by lightning during a training session.
- Ivan Zaborovsky was jogging with the ball at FC Znamya Truda's home ground on July 4, when a crack of lightning shot down and hit him.
- "When I ran up, his whole shirt on his chest burned out," Anton Basov, who gave Zaborovsky CPR at the scene, told the club. "He did not breathe for a while."
- The teenager was placed on life support shortly after, however is now on the road to recovery.
A 16-year-old Russian soccer player was left in a coma after being struck by lightening during a training session.
Ivan Zaborovsky was jogging alone with the ball at FC Znamya Truda's home ground on July 4, when a crack of lightning shot down and hit him.
The youngster immediately collapsed, and was subsequently rushed to the hospital where he was induced into a coma and placed on life support, according to the Russian club.
You can see a security footage of the incident below.
(Caution — The video includes the moment Zaborovsky was struck by lightning):
Coach Anton Basov, who gave Zaborovsky CPR at the scene, told the club: "I did not see the moment of impact ... everyone ran in his direction at once. They came running and began to help.
"When I ran up, his whole shirt on his chest burned out. At that moment I realized that it seems that lightning struck. He did not breathe for a while.
"Once, a very, very long time ago, we had a course in first aid. Thank God, everything immediately surfaced in my memory, and I knew what to do. "
Fortunately, the club says Zaborovsky is now out of his induced coma and on the road to recovery.
"I know doctors rate Ivan's condition as stable, they have removed him from artificial breathing ventilators and are gradually bringing him out of an artificial coma," it said in a statement on Instagram.
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