[Tony Dellbird]

I'm just making a story thread where people can write about their gruesome injuries they've received or seen, whilst playing football. Also how it happened how long it took to heal and on a scaled of 1-10 (10 being the highest) How much pain they were in. This may strike people as a weird thread but i've had so many injuries in my time, i think i'm immune to seeing bones stick through skin, (normally my own).

It really does freak you out!

[somebody]

interesting thread

I accidentally kneed my own goalkeeper in a match. He had to get metal plates in his head. He was on the state ODP team for goalkeeper and as a field player, but was never quite the same after that in the head (well duh, I guess). I think he had a brief stint at VCU followed by a brief pro career in Cost Rica.

My knee swelled up really big...like the size of a softball. But I never was sent to the trainer and didn't miss any matches. I guess it was just fluid that went away

--Joe Theisman

[truthandlife]

Teammate that was in a shin to shin tackle (before shin guards were mandatory) and he is screaming at the top of his lungs. He tries to get up and part of his lower leg is just hanging by skin. He passes out. His shin bone snapped totally in half. This guy was a great player and never recovered with all of the surgeries he had.

[Bertico84]

Some poor kid got slide tackled at my middle school years ago during a PE match and broke his leg. They say he flew pretty far then landed and it snapped like a twig. He never played soccer again.

Ive never broken a limb.

[sunburnt]

last season two of my team mates tripped a kid and he broke his arm. then the next i game i go for a 50/50 with him he goes flying and breaks his arm even worse; i get a red card.

[CHICO13]

Playing on a crap field I was cutting across the middle of the field pretty fast when I hit a good 6 inch rut. My ankle basically imploded. My foot went all the way over and I went down in a heap. Screamed every curse word I knew in English and Spanish and even made a few new ones up. Hurt like a mother....

[Jc18star]

Last September I shattered a section my fibula, dislocated my ankle, broke my talus(bone in your ankle that holds the socket together) and ruptured my ankle ligements all from one guy tackling me from behind in a college game.

I have a 9 inch plate in my leg right now because of it and 7 screws are holding it on, this September I am having the plate taken out though because it's very painful when I try and play becasue of the stress it creates on the bone.

On a pain scale of 1-10 it was off the charts becasue there was so much damage at on time in one small area, I have recoved pretty well so far and once this plate comes out i fully expect to be able to be the same player I was before the injury.

BTW I am now friends with the guy the made the tackle that nearly ended my career.

[Dr.Phil]

worst injury ive had was i tore both calf muscles in my legs





in a tourny the game before us some kid got kicked in the head and had a stroke. was pretty scary

[Publius]

In the last two years I've personally seen Chris Armas, Milton Reyes and Steffi Jones blow out their ACL's. I also got to see Ronnie O'Brien's leg get broken.

In terms of actually participating in a game, when I was in little league U-10 soccer, two players collided in practice, one of whom wrecked his knee and was out for the year; the other suffered a severe concussion and only played the last game.

[somebody]

Originally Posted by Dr.Phil

worst injury ive had was i tore both calf muscles in my legs

cripes! what type of shark was it?