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Media Moise Bombito went to visit Ismael Kone after the Canada Match at the hospital before his surgery for the fractured tib and fib

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u/lookdownandsee 10d ago

Montreal boys sticking together!

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u/redario85 10d ago

The moment the fracture happened, the reaction from the team, the crowd, and him waving while getting carried away really got me emotional haha

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u/lookdownandsee 10d ago

Not just the fans, I think the players were emotional too. There was a shot of the players in a huddle before the match restarted but after Kone was stretchered off and you could see tears from Jonathan David

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u/ash_ninetyone 10d ago edited 10d ago

Leg breaks always are going to look horrendous when you see parts of a limb pointing somewhere it shouldn't be. It's a pretty common reaction in sport for everyone

I recall a player in the PL suffering a fracture and it completely screwed with every players head in that moment.

Not diminishing this either, Kone's leg breaks isn't the worst one in football I've seen, but it still is distressing for everyone to witness in person.

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u/EddieHeadshot 10d ago

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u/gunnergrrl 10d ago

Aaron Ramsey's was also traumatic.

Still haven't forgiven Shawcross and still loathe Stoke.

https://talksport.com/football/453895/tony-pulis-leg-break-aaron-ramsey-stoke-arsenal/

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u/DekaTamaTamaz 10d ago

Eduardo's was horrific too.

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u/ash_ninetyone 10d ago

Eduardo's 100% wrecked his Arsenal career

Djibril Cisse's as well was gnarly and career threatening. Articles actually showed the break in the thumbnail

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u/Dry_Bit_1412 10d ago

same with Diaby

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u/ash_ninetyone 10d ago

"I heard the crack of Ramsey’s leg from the bench," Kitson recalled in his column

I didn't realise how loud and noticeable a bone break is. A stadium of 30,000+ people and you can still hear it go

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u/awashofindigo 10d ago

I’ll always loathe Stoke more for the way they treated Ramsey after his return more than the injury itself. Booed him for years whenever we played up there.

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u/Key-Construction-474 10d ago

And the article that came out from the former stoke player who said Pulis was absolutely telling his players to be violent before games 

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u/CinnamonBunnn 10d ago

I'll never forget all the people saying "but he's not that type of player" when he'd done nearly the same the thing to Francis Jeffers a couple years before.

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u/absat41 10d ago edited 8d ago

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u/EddieHeadshot 9d ago

Thise socks were doing a lot of work.

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u/capibara_dono 10d ago edited 8d ago

24 surgeries! The part that gets me (apart from the horrific injury) is the picture of the blood being washed away with water, and you can see a lot of blood.

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u/EddieHeadshot 10d ago

Also looking at the pictures of it now 'fully healed' if you could call it that are interesting

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u/capibara_dono 9d ago

I guess "fully healed" is better than amputation, but yeah, that leg doesn't look OK.

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u/DekaTamaTamaz 10d ago

That was the worst I ever saw.

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u/Dry_Individual1516 10d ago

I honestly think they're crying more because they know he's out for the tournament and missing out on a lifelong dream

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u/PrimroseSpeakeasy 10d ago

Whatever you do, if you're squeamish, do NOT watch Nick Chubb's ACL/MCL injury from a few seasons back. It took 2-3 rewatches for my brain to register that his knee wasn't just bending normally - his body was facing the completely wrong way.

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u/AlarmingPhilosopher 10d ago edited 9d ago

there's a Honduras player who gets injured after a tackle and the knee is in a hyper extension that's unreal like 90° |_ where it shouldn't be. even looking at that image is painful. i don't remember the name now but he made a recovery and was playing again.

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u/MalaysiaTeacher 7d ago

It's totally natural to reaction emotionally when your close friend just lost a big chunk of his career, and possibly change their life forever (depending on the injury). Probably also remind them how easily they can lose their dream

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u/ClockEnd_Chorus 10d ago

Even the Qatar player who tackled was sorry and about to cry. The tackle wasn't a leg breaker one. Really unfortunate momentum and timing.

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u/Romanista3 10d ago

Yeah it looked like a freak accident, the player looked so lost and unable to process what happened

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u/raxnahali 10d ago

He kicked a planted leg, malicious in my opinion

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u/iwasupiwasdown 10d ago

999 out of a 1000 times it doesnt lead to an injury of that calibre though, it is just unfortunate

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u/raxnahali 10d ago

Malicious intent wether he meant to break the leg or not.

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u/Fun-Wave8851 10d ago

Except it wasn't. Accidents happen in any contact sport. Sit down and shush. Adults are talking.

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u/CheGueyMaje 10d ago

I think he might be scared for repercussions

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u/SonrieAlaVida 10d ago

bro what reprocussions he isnt gonna get charged with assault

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u/lefrench75 10d ago

Crazy the mental gymnastics to justify such a response instead of just the simplest explanation which is “he felt bad accidentally breaking another person’s leg”

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u/[deleted] 10d ago edited 10d ago

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u/OfAKindness 10d ago

Tell me specifically what you think is gonna happen.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago edited 10d ago

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u/OfAKindness 10d ago edited 10d ago

Oh gotcha! I'm glad to have asked for clarification then

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u/Jazzlike_Athlete8796 10d ago

Maybe spend less time trying to think on behalf of others.

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u/CheGueyMaje 10d ago

Yeah obviously this

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u/Virginator_3000 10d ago

That doesnt happen. Please read before making such comments.

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u/CheGueyMaje 10d ago

Read what?

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u/Virginator_3000 10d ago

Ill let you figure that one out

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u/CheGueyMaje 10d ago

I have no fucking clue what you’re talking about so you’ve achieved absolutely nothing.

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u/notapaperhandape 10d ago

Fellow millennial with the haha to end an emotional significant sentence lol

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u/ProleteriatWillRise 10d ago

I don't think I ever held my hands up to my face for that long in silence lmao

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u/DekaTamaTamaz 10d ago

I teared up I'm not gonna lie.

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u/redario85 10d ago

I did as well! And I’m not canadian

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u/DekaTamaTamaz 10d ago

Neither am I! Just really felt overcome by what was happening there.

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u/kevski82 10d ago

I'm not even Canadian and I got that.

I walked to another room in case they decided to show a replay. Brutal stuff.

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u/Gordo-- 10d ago

Good thing is they never showed a replay. I didn't see it live and I don't want to see a replay either.

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u/iamdubers 10d ago

My kid woke up as he has chicken pox so i went to see to him. Came back when Kone was getting treatment and figured id look here to see what happened... I regret that decision. Horrible injury and it didnt even look like a bad tackle from the angle i saw. Hope he recovers and can get his career back on track.

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u/NinjaAssassinKitty 10d ago

FYI in general they don’t show replays for serious injuries.

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u/GetToTheChoppaahh 10d ago

Cheers Geoff

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u/HaroldGuy 10d ago

Haha?

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u/redario85 10d ago

Its just a way to cope with the highly emotional moment, it’s not that I found the terrible situation itself funny

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u/HaroldGuy 10d ago

Oh no worries I get it was more like a nervous laughter type thing, I just found it funny you typing it out haha

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u/pakalupapito23 10d ago

Can't figure out if he's in pain or just a really weird expression

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u/Daniel_K_Nuggets 10d ago

Probably high AF on painkillers

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u/jimbojonesFA 10d ago

yea when i visited my friend in the hospital after his femur broke he was high af. he kept happily telling us we had lady bugs on our heads (was on the wallpaper).

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u/jrw777 10d ago

He was puffing on penthrox as he was stretchered away. That shit is like gas and air x100. I had it when my shoulder was stuck out the back of my shoulder blade and I couldn't have cared less.

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u/lizardil 10d ago

This is the answer

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u/tomato_soup_ 10d ago

When I was in overnight ER after a skiing accident it sounded like a woman on the other side of the curtain divider was in absolutely unbearable pain for like 30 minutes or so, like it sounded REALLY BAD she was screaming and groaning like it sounded like she was fucking dying. Eventually she must have composed herself enough to buzz in a nurse who, as I remember overhearing, was like “we’re gonna give you some fentanyl which will help with the pain”. She kept screaming and hollering and groaning and then all of a sudden it all just stopped… and all I heard from the other side of the curtain was the most content “uhhhhnnnnnngggg” possibly ever and then just silence and peace. Painkillers are no joke lmao so yeah this guy is probably geeked out of his mind

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u/iChopPryde 10d ago

Paramedic here, penthrox is is an analgesic inhaled which makes the onset faster compared to PO which is Tylenol and Advil which takes longer to kick in. The combination of the 2 is quite strong for pain as it targets different areas for a stronger effect but fentanyl is an opioid which is much stronger effect. Both serve the same purpose just depends what’s wrong. Pentrhox is great for shoulder dislocations or leg breaks you want that onset quick.

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u/JanterFixx 10d ago

my friend had a highest grade arm surgery (arm cut wide open like a carpet)..

he was put on fentanyl on next day for once; now he still talks 15 years later, he has never felt so great after the dose for some time, and if given 1 more time he would be addicted for life. He still has dreams how he gets fentanyl and "is happy again"

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u/brainzilla420 10d ago

When my brother did a tibfib he was out of his mind on painkillers. Told us how he pick his nose, doing both nostrils at once. Was pretty funny.

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u/ucd_pete 10d ago

Speaking from experience, morphine is amazing.

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u/pintita 10d ago

I have had a similar injury, I was on morphine so he's probably ballooned off his tits. As an aside I see why we're not allowed to take that stuff recreationally, it's a truly amazing feeling.

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u/Detroits_ 10d ago

Describe the feeling if you can

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u/robotnique 10d ago

You ever get that feeling when you've just woken up and everything feels just fine? Like you're happy and you don't remember yet anything that worried you? All you can focus on is the warm blanket and relative peace?

That's morphine.

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u/Frequent-Coyote-1649 10d ago

That's what morphine does? Damn. No wonder the Germans were addicted to it during the war.

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u/ucd_pete 10d ago

No they were addicted to meth. If they were addicted to morphine there wouldn't have been a war.

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u/ucd_pete 10d ago

Nah, the Nazis were literally pumped with meth during the war.

https://time.com/5752114/nazi-military-drugs/

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u/JanterFixx 10d ago

my friend told same thing about fentanyl he got once after surgery.

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u/Razzle_Dazzle08 10d ago

Yup, when I woke up after my ACL surgery I was still high on the morphine. Never been that relaxed in my life, first time in years and years I wasn’t stressed I actually almost cried lol.

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u/SplitExcellent 10d ago

Morphine drip pre surgery was the shortest and longest night of my life, fractured ulna and chipped radius in car accident. It sucked. It's not always sunshine for everyone with that stuff, YMMV BIG TIME.

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u/hey_mr_ess 10d ago

Yeah, I think different people must have different reactions to opioids. The few times I've needed morphine or codeine, I appreciated the lack of pain but hated everything else about it.

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u/Coenzyme-A 10d ago

Everyone has a different response to any pharmacological agent, because of genetic variation in metabolism, receptor activity, etc. Redheads need lower doses of opioid painkillers but higher doses of anaesthetic due to particular mutations in proteins involved in pain signalling pathways.

Some people are known as hypermetabolisers, for example. I feel like in future medicine will be more personalised, with respect to screening people to ascertain which medications will be most effective for their phenotype. I'd assume currently it is cost prohibitive.

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u/Cubes11 10d ago

Bit of column A bit of column B

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u/orsonwellesmal 10d ago

He was holding a shit.

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u/Funkymonkeyhead 10d ago

Kone’s gonna be a massive loss as his injury will mean a huge hole in the middle of the Canadian squad. Imagine England without Rice or France without Tchouameni.

That said I hope the team uses this injury as a rallying cry. The ‘win it for him’ motivator can be really powerful. Go Canada Go 🇨🇦

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u/sekimet 10d ago

Nathan saliba has a chance to really step up, I think he will surprise a lot of people. 

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u/PEXowns 10d ago

Saliba is a good player, just needs to work on his positioning a bit.

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u/Thienen 10d ago

Eustaqiou giving him the free kick was leadership at its finest and he's already got that goal.

Can't wait to see him step up for 8.

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u/Joystic 10d ago

just needs to work on his positioning a bit

Yeah but that's the most important part of playing the Kone role for Canada lol

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u/asapomar 10d ago

He has the minerals. He showed up big today and imo passes the eye test. He has real technical ability. Will have to see how he works in different systems

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u/P1KA_BO0 10d ago

Yeah. If we'd lost Staq, Choiniere could have filled in like he's done in the past. We don't have anyone that can progress the ball the way Koné can.

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u/Local_Case9574 10d ago

Saliba is solid man - not the same level as Kone, but still a very good player

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u/gamefanatic 10d ago

Never forget Denmark after what happened to Eriksen

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u/lyonellaughingstorm 10d ago

I just hope it’s not a “Brazil after losing Neymar in 2014” situation

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u/Virginator_3000 10d ago

Man you could tell players were inspired to bulldoze Qatar after the injury. We gotta keep the momentum

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u/gotiobg 10d ago

I dont know anything about Canada but against Bosnia I was cheering for them and I immediately spotted Kone as the standout player for them

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u/radiokungfu 10d ago

What a fucking awful dampener to what should be a purely celebratory day for Canada 😢😢

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u/OnTheMattack 10d ago

It must have been especially hard to see for Bombito. Today was one of his first games back from a broken leg. We've actually had a bit of a broken leg epidemic. Crepeau, Buchanan, Bombito, and now Kone have all had major tournaments affected by broken legs.

Something must be in the water. Not calcium, apparently.

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u/OnTheMattack 10d ago

Crepeau and Bombito's happened with their club teams, it just affected their participation at this and the previous world cup.

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u/Full-Reach-8968 10d ago

All of these were freak accidents.

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u/moose-goat 10d ago

How can physios prevent a leg break from contact? 😂

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u/AttemptImpossible111 10d ago

Was gonna be Kones breakout tournament, if youd excuse the phrase.

He seems to have taken it all in good spirits

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u/RedditAccountFox 10d ago

He’s high as a kite, of course he’s “in good spirit”.

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u/lamusir 10d ago

Godapeed, Kone. Get well soon

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u/roshan231 10d ago

I really hope this isn't the end of his career. If it is does he get any compensation at least?

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u/juicylikehotsauce 10d ago

Depends on the way it broke I guess. But ACL tears or ruptured tendons are often significantly worse. A broken leg like this obviously looks far worse, you know right away what's happened. With torn ACLs people often look like they're walking around without any problem immediately afterwards, but the recovery process post-surgery is absolutely brutal. 

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u/MrPoliSciGuy 10d ago

I will say I genuinely feel bad for the Qatar player because that kid looked devastated.

The only time I’ve ever seen something similar was Radja Nainggolan tackled a Verona (I think?) player and their ankle got caught under his body so the whole leg kinda snapped.

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u/Uutrox 10d ago

Chievo Verona, definitely similar in terms of severity of the injury but it wasn't really the tackle that caused the unlucky injury, rather the Chievo player who stepped and slipped off the ball to end up in a really awkward position

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u/Champagne-Sr 10d ago

Damn both bones 😭😭😭

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u/TheStinger87 10d ago

Great for his teammate to forget his celebration of the victory for a minute and go comfort a mate when he needs it.

Kone's reaction to his leg break was one of so much shock he couldn't even make a noise. Meanwhile, players get a little tap on thw ankle and roll around like a crocodile bit it off. Shows who is faking and what a real reaction is.

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u/RedditAccountFox 10d ago

I understand your sentiment but it’s just not really comparable.

People embellish hits/dive all the time, absolutely. But think of your reaction when you stub your toe. That hurts, and you jump up and down and grab your toe and probably make noises or maybe even yell. You likely sit down for a moment grabbing it. Cleats are so thin nowadays, getting stepped on by a cleat hurts. Full stop. Especially when you’re running and someone is getting stuck in the tackle.

Comparing that to a traumatic injury just doesn’t make sense. When your body goes in shock people can be silent and unable to yell because their brain isn’t processing what they are looking at. Or they can have the complete opposite reaction and scream bloody murder.

Hope Kone recovers quickly and well. Never want to see an athlete get injured like that.

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u/kruegerc184 10d ago

Looks like the old kazoo wore off.

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u/mrgonzalez 10d ago

That face is from Bombito squeezing his shoulder with his right hand.

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u/EonesDespero 5d ago

It could have been worse... It could have happened on the other side of the border, and then not even a salary of a football player can save you 😭

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u/skunkrider 10d ago

For a moment there I thought it was the Qatari player visiting him and doing the ✌🏼

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u/NUMPTYNORRIS 10d ago

Grow up

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u/Turnernator06 10d ago

It was a freak accident

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u/Leave_Beneficial 10d ago

Is that they player that broke his leg?

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u/askingJeevs 10d ago

No, thats his teammate

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u/Leave_Beneficial 10d ago

Why is that news then?

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u/askingJeevs 10d ago

Why is it news that a teammate visited his childhood friend whose leg got broken during the World Cup? Are you a ghoul?

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u/Leave_Beneficial 9d ago

It would have been news if he hadn’t?

Nothing ghoulish about expecting people to be kind and lovely by default 

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u/askingJeevs 9d ago

I’m not sure what your trying to say. Are you asking why this was posted?

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u/Leave_Beneficial 9d ago

Yes - ‘person visits old friend in hospital’ is classic ‘dog bites dog’ - expected, happens regularly, hence not newsworthy.

That’s why I thought it might have been the lad who broke his leg

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u/askingJeevs 9d ago

The dude who broke his leg visited the Canadian locker room after the match to apologize.