The Drop In: Omar Elabdellaoui and football’s most extraordinary comeback
Football Ramble
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4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Almost two years ago today, Norway international Omar Elabdellaoui went blind in a firework explosion.
11 surgeries and 13 months later, he returned to the pitch for Galatasaray. Kate catches up with him about his incredible journey since that New Year’s Eve in 2020 and how he is seeing football – literally – with new eyes.
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| 1:07.2 | Hi guys, welcome back to the drop in back safely from Qatar. |
| 1:24.8 | This is the last point in the season. |
| 1:46.7 | That night though, as he was setting off some fireworks for his friends and family, |
| 1:50.8 | he was holding his three kids, Omar tried to lie a firework, it went off and exploded |
| 1:56.8 | in his face. |
| 1:59.3 | By the time he'd reached hospital in Istanbul hours later, journalists and teammates were |
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