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This is sad, one of Uruguay's top soccer players had to have his leg amputated after getting into an accident on a highway. He got thrown out of his car and "CRUNCH." That must have hurt and then getting your leg chopped off and waking up to that, I would have been extremely sad and would have cryed my brains out. Mainly because you are a top player in your country and you are on the National team at age 33, then you have to end your career due to a horrible accident. That just sucks and I feel bad for him.

Here is the story:

By Associated Press

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - The shattered right leg of top Uruguayan soccer player Dario Silva was amputated after he was thrown from his car in a highway accident, hospital officials said Monday.

The 33-year-old forward, a member of the national team, was driving along a Montevideo road that fronts the River Plate Estuary early Sunday when his car struck a light post on a center divider, police said. He hurtled through a side window, and his right leg was caught and badly broken as the light post toppled over the car, authorities said.

The Asociacion Espanola clinic said Silva remained under heavy sedation after the amputation.

"The amputation was carried out just below the knee of his right leg. But he is going back into the surgery unit to determine if there has been any infection," Dr. Mario Cancela said, adding sand and dirt appeared to have been ground into the leg by the fallen post.

"We have to keep cleaning this area to prevent any infection from spreading," he said.

Authorities said Silva was accompanied by two former players _ Dardo Pereira, 34, was not injured, and Elbio Papa, 40, was slightly injured and had to be extricated from the car's twisted metal.

Silva left Sevilla in Spain and Portsmouth in England in 2005, but was released and has been without a club. Silva also has played in the Italian and Uruguayan leagues.

So all I can say now is Goodbye Dario Silva. "I feel bad for you"

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• #1 Comment from glad48357 
  9/27/06 8:34 PM | Permalink

  This is indeed a very sad story.  I certainly feel very sorry for him and hope his future plays out well for him.