BREAKING: Retiring Roos great spends night in hospital after ‘unprovoked attack’
“Ziebell had been celebrating his final match at a club function earlier in the evening and headed to the venue with a group of teammates and some staff following the event,” the Roos said in a statement.'Couple beers tonight I reckon, Ed!' | 01:17“Victoria Police attended the incident.”
Victoria Police said in a statement: “It appears the victim was pushed onto the road by the offender, who was in the company of two other men, before he was punched to the face and kicked when he fell to the ground. The trio then fled the scene.”reporter Alicia Muling added more details on Sunday morning, saying Kangaroos staff were “really shaken up by what’s occurred”.
“He went with past players, staff from North, friends and family . We understand a group of men were hassling Ziebell and his friends and security asked that group to leave,” Muling told Channel 9’sJack Ziebell of the Kangaroos played his last AFL game on Saturday. Picture: Michael Willson/AFL Photos via Getty Images“Some time later, Jack went outside the venue to get one of his friends, who’d arrived at the bar, and that’s when that group of men then saw him and basically set upon him.
“He’s had to be taken to hospital, he’s got significant injuries to his face and his head and the club says he might have to have surgery today. So a shocking, horrific incident.” It comes after Ziebell, 32, suited up for his last AFL game on Saturday in a 29-point loss to Richmond.
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