Preston Burpo Injury VIDEO: Goalie Breaks Leg During Game

Preston Burpo, the goalkeeper for the New England Revolution, suffered a brutal leg injury on Saturday. The 37-year-old was attempting to stop a scoring attempt by the New York Red Bulls, but he ended up breaking his right leg in the process. According to the Boston Herald, the awful injury "left at least one Revolution player in tears and all of them visibly shaken."

Burpo was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital, where it was determined that he broke both his right fibula and tibia. Video of the incident is below.

WARNING: GRAPHIC FOOTAGE (via Dirty Tackle)

Comments

[HDR]

09:17 AM on 06/06/2010

I remember seeing the same type of leg break by the Argentine goalie early on in the '90 World Cup.

[The DChild]

05:45 PM on 06/05/2010

OHH Snap! I thought they were playing with a sock puppet on the soccer field. I like the guy who pretending he was hurt on the bottom right of the screen.

[Eben Arias]

12:51 PM on 06/05/2010

Ugh, that's so nasty. Feel so bad for the guy.

[REDFALCON]

05:55 AM on 06/05/2010

oh snap

[Eben Arias]

12:51 PM on 06/05/2010

LOL

[f8doggie]

10:57 PM on 06/04/2010

Gah. I broke my leg-- snapped just like that and the foot twisted around on a freeway on ramp with traffic coming at me. I Totally feel for this guy and feel his pain. It is awful when your leg disintegra­tes into a wet noodle and the Pain is just endless and awful. So sorry man, better luck next year.

[Val49]

05:04 PM on 06/03/2010

OMG, That looks painful.

[Johnowen]

05:31 AM on 06/03/2010

Hello Huffpost. There is a WORLD CUP ON AND THE US IS IN IT. Why do you only report the bad side of football. There are many good tales about football, not just injuries, riots and other nonsense, but no doubt they do not make good headlines

[tingping]

01:44 AM on 06/03/2010

Why can't soccer players stop flopping?G­et up and defend your goal!

[Balzac]

08:44 PM on 06/02/2010

Ouch.

[JacksonHts]

07:23 PM on 06/02/2010

Huffington Post Sport section has carried within the past week videos of an NBA coach vomiting, of a MLB pitcher getting a line drive off his head, and a soccer player snapping his leg. I think I will stick to other websites for my sports news.

[elan4444]

03:24 AM on 06/03/2010

Thanks for pointing this out - I know there is a World Cup about to be played . . . somewhere. Will have to get a newspaper I guess.

[abuja19]

07:07 PM on 06/02/2010

That is unfortunat­e. I hope he can recover quickly from such a horrific injry.

[Balzac]

08:44 PM on 06/02/2010

It's not going to be a "quick" recovery, but he may well have a full recovery.

[spytheweb]

06:58 PM on 06/02/2010

That's gotta smart.

[mp299805]

02:07 PM on 06/02/2010

gross

[anitaj]

01:50 PM on 06/02/2010

Best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery for Mr. Burpo.

[mmm pecan pie]

09:49 AM on 06/02/2010

Yikes!!!! Made me hurt just watching that! (so I had to watch it again!)

I wish him the best and a quick recovery!