“This sport is bigger than us” | How Kelvin Jimenez found purpose with New England 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.

“It’s like I was living, but just going through the motions. I was missing a huge part of my life, which was soccer. If you know me, I played seven days a week and I traveled all over the United States. Soccer consumed my life,” he said of his life pre-accident. “It was everything, and then you take that away and I was destroyed. It felt like I had a hole in my heart.”