Iran's soccer legend Daei survives car crash

 　　TEHRAN, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Iran's soccer legend Ali Daei has survived a serious car crash, local media reported on Sunday.

　　Former captain of Iran's national soccer team was injured on his way from Isfahan to Tehran after his car overturned¹ on Saturday evening.

　　After he was taken to a hospital in central Kashan city, the doctors commented that he was in "good condition" and was hurt by some non-serious injury on the skull² and ear, said the reports.

　　The coach of Iranian soccer club, Rahahan, was heading to Tehran after his team was beaten 3-2 by Sepahan soccer club in Isfahan.

　　The reports by the police said that the cause of the accident was "high speed."

　　A Sunday TV footage showed Daei in the hospital in Kashan talking to the reporter and asking people to pray for him.

　　Daei, 42, who played for Bayern Munich in Germany's Bundesliga from 1997-1999, is the world's top goal scorer in international matches by scoring 109 goals in 149 international games.

　　Daei, as of June 2007, is also a member of the FIFA Football Committee.

1 overturned   

adj. 倒转的 动词overturn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• The car skidded and overturned. 汽车打滑翻倒了。
• When a bird's nest is overturned, no egg can remain intact. 覆巢之下无完卵。

2 skull   

n.头骨；颅骨

参考例句：

• The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.头骨在15至25岁之间长合。
• He fell out of the window and cracked his skull.他从窗子摔了出去，跌裂了颅骨。