Kelvin Jimenez Speaks On Amputee Soccer with The MLS New England Revolution

Kelvin Jimenez Playing For The U.S. in Warsaw, Poland

Kelvin Jimenez of the New England Amputee Soccer Association spoke the the MLS, New England Revolution about finding a new purpose with amputee soccer.

When Kelvin Jimenez lost his leg in a boating accident on January 3, 2021, he thought he would never kick a soccer ball again. An athlete all his life, soccer was more than just a sport to him – it was his identity, his purpose.

And just like that, it was gone.

Amid the darkness, he was shown a light. It was while going through treatment at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown, Mass., that his doctor told him about amputee soccer.

“They gave me the website to go research and I was like, ‘Soccer on crutches?’ It’s something you’ve never heard of in your life and then you’re like, ‘Woah.’ It’s a whole new world. Because if somebody gives you an opportunity to play the sport you love, you won’t think twice,” he said.

That’s when the name Nico Calabria first started buzzing in Jimenez’s ears. Everywhere he went, he heard the name. Calabria, a co-founder of the New England Amputee Soccer Association and captain of the United States Amputee Team, is someone Jimenez credits with quite literally saving his life.

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