Child’s soccer horror unseen

THE THUD WAS what caught their attention.

A day after Tommaso Cerase was killed in a freak accident while he hung from a soccer goalpost, it appeared that none of the six adults inside the Hell’s Kitchen gym at the time actually saw what happened.

Police believe Tommaso, a fourth-grader at the private Dwight School on Central Park West, was killed Sunday while he was just being a kid.

As his coach was giving pointers around 10 a.m., Tommaso, playing goalie, jumped up and grabbed the metal post’s horizontal bar and started swinging.

The momentum upended the goal, which landed on his face as he fell backwards, striking his head on the wooden gym floor inside Park West High School.

The coach, Santiago Montoya Salgado, 29, ran over and started CPR as the boy bled from his head and left ear. Others ran to get the boy’s mom, Barbara Riccardi, 44, who was downstairs, sources said.

An EMS ambulance crew raced Tommaso to Mount Sinai West Hospital, where he died a short time later, at 10:45 a.m.

Sources said there were six adults in the gym at the time — three parents and three members of the Juventus Academy, which runs the soccer program.

Neither they nor the 10 or so kids there for soccer practice saw the tragedy unfold.