Overview

• Schalke’s medical staff signaled to the fourth official that Katic should not resume play after his head injury but that directive was not registered in the hectic closing moments
• Video footage captures the team doctor gesturing “No” and shouting to prevent Katic’s return, highlighting the communication failure
• Katic spent Friday night under medical observation, has since been released home, and remains barred from training while serving a suspension for his red card
• The DFB and its referee arm, DFB Schiri GmbH, described their discussions as constructive and pledged to refine match-day procedures to ensure explicit medical-official exchanges
• Under current DFL rules a suspected concussion must be ruled out by testing and explicitly communicated by the team doctor before a player can continue, a process the DFB vows to enforce more rigorously