A German soccer match was canceled before kickoff after a referee suffered an unexpected injury after getting a bite on his testicle from a player's child.
On Sunday, FC Taxi Duisburg II and SV Rot-Weiss Mülheim were set to compete in the eighth-tier Kreisliga C division. As part of routine pre-match protocol, referee Stefan Kahler was conducting ID checks on players when a young child, the son of an FC Taxi player, was running around the field, according to the National World.
As Kahler continued his pre-game duties, the child unexpectedly approached him and bit him in the testicle.
"While I was checking the FC Taxi players' ID, a small child was doing warm-up exercises alongside the players. He came closer and closer to me, then suddenly - to my complete surprise - gave me a sharp bite in my left testicle," Kahler said in a report obtained by the outlet.
The injury was severe enough that Kahler, in significant pain, had to call off the match before it even began. In his official report, he confirmed that he could not officiate due to the pain and the bizarre nature of the incident.
"I did not start the game, because of the pain I was in and the situation. It was the child of one of the FC Taxi players who was to blame," he said.
The game will be rescheduled later in the season, though it remains uncertain whether Kahler will return as the referee.
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