Mexico soccer manager Javier Aguirre struck by can thrown onto the pitch from stands, left with bloodied head [Video]

Mexico’s national soccer team manager Javier Aguirre was left with a bloodied head after he was struck by a can thrown from the stand following his team’s 2-0 defeat to Honduras on Friday.

Footage posted on social media showed Aguirre walking across the pitch in San Pedro Sula, Honduras while objects thrown by the crowd landed on the ground around him. One then struck Aguirre’s head and exploded with liquid while he flinched and a cut opened up on his scalp.

Blood began to pour down to his face as he was tended to by his support staff and a physio followed him around the pitch, holding a gauze to the cut. Aguirre then tossed away the gauze and walked off the pitch, shielded by a line of security holding up riot shields, litter thrown from the stands strewn about their feet.

Afterwards, he downplayed the incident saying it was “nothing.”

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