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FC Zurich have initiated legal proceedings after their midfielder Gilles Yapi-Yapo suffered a serious injury following a horrific tackle by Aarau’s Sandro Wieser during a Swiss Super League game last weekend.

Yapi-Yapo, a former Ivory Coast international, was said by his club to have suffered torn anterior and interior cruciate ligaments, serious cartilage damage, meniscus tear, a torn kneecap and deep bruising in his thigh as a result of the tackle by Wieser – his former team-mate at FC Basel.

Wieser appeared to stamp downwards on Yapi-Yapo’s right knee, forcing the 32-year-old to be carried off on a stretcher in the 19th minute of the match and prompting the FC Zurich president, Ancillo Canepa, to lodge legal proceedings for intentional injury.

Wieser, a Liechtenstein international, expressed remorse via his Facebook page, after the match. “I totally regret what happened,” he posted. “There was absolutely no intent on my part. I’ve had a lot of experience with injury and I don’t wish that on anyone.”