Ex-Liverpool star was stabbed in street and now plays for Eric Cantona's team
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Andre Wisdom was stabbed in 2020.
(Image: BBC.)
"I wouldn't say that night ruined my career, but it definitely changed it."
Former Liverpool defender Andre Wisdom was returning to Merseyside three years after his departure from the club when he was stabbed in the street.
Wisdom, now 32, played 22 times for the club but has since dropped down to the seventh tier of English football.
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Now plying his trade for FC United of Manchester, Wisdom has spoken at length on that fateful night and how five years on, he is still dealing with the consequences.
"Who knows where I'd be playing today had I not been stabbed," Wisdom told the BBC.
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The former England Under-21 captain had been leaving a house party in the early hours of morning, during a time when COVID-19 lockdown restrictions were in place and pubs and restaurants were closed.
On June 28, 2020, Wisdom was attacked by several masked men who stole his designer watch and stabbed him.
"I shouldn't have been there," he said about the house party.
Andre Wisdom in action for Liverpool.
That's when I phoned for an ambulance."
In addition to his thigh, Wisdom was also stabbed in the head, chest and buttocks.
Somehow, just three months later, Wisdom was back on the pitch for Derby.