US goalkeeper Jonathan Klinsmann breaks neck playing for Cesena

• US youth international injured in collision v Palermo

• Further tests with specialist to take place

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Goalkeeper Jonathan Klinsmann, the son of former Germany striker and US national team head coach Jürgen Klinsmann, is recovering from a broken neck sustained playing for second-tier Italian side Cesena on Saturday.

The former US youth international, 29, was stretchered off the field in a neck brace after a collision with a Palermo player and taken to a hospital in the Sicilian capital.