Amputee Footballer Scores First Goal After Five-Year Journey‌ ‌

Si Collinson playing soccer. Collison decided to have his lower right leg amputated in 2019 to give him the best quality of life going forward. SIMON COLLISON VIA SWNS.

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Simon Collison, an amputee footballer, is celebrating scoring his first goal since losing a leg five years ago after being seriously injured during a military exercise.

Collinson, 41, had his lower right leg amputated below the knee in 2019 after he was seriously injured in an armored vehicle crash two years earlier.

His goal for the Sunday League able-bodied team Feering Village, near Colchester, in Essex last Sunday (August 18) came after he feared he would never play again.

“It felt like I’d won the Champion’s League,” said Collison.

“I’d like to say I got past six players and hit it from 30 yards out but I knocked it in from seven,” he added.

“As soon as I scored, my shirt was off and I was cheering and running around.”

“If I had two legs, I probably would have never mentioned it. But it felt like all my trials and tribulations up to that point had paid off and the story was complete.”

Collinson’s goal put Feering Village two goals up against the friendly pre-season match against Colchester United Supporters Association and they won 3-1.

Sadly the goal, which Collinson put in the back of the net after it was passed to him by a teammate late during the second half, was not recorded as he said: “Nobody was really expecting me to score.”

The father-of-two served in the Household Cavalry in the Armored Reconnaissance Regiment when he was involved in an armored vehicle crash in Canada in 2017.