Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Bernese hockey player Martin Gerber, who is the goalkeeper for the Swiss national team, was injured to his neck playing for his Russian club, Atlant Mytischtschi, in a game 13 December and may be out of action for at least six months. In Sunday’s game against Witjas Tschechow, Gerber had a head-on-head collision with an opposing attacker.

After being admitted to a specialized clinic in Podolsk later on Sunday, he was quoted as saying the injury was not as bad as was at first believed, Swiss-German newspaper NZZ reports. Initial Russian media reports said he had damaged his fourth cervical vertebra, which would have meant that Gerber was unlikely to play with the Swiss national hockey team in 2010’s Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.

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