Jordan Foote wants to remain in football despite losing leg

Photo: Jordan Foote

Two weeks after undergo a life changing operation that has left him short of his left leg and having his football playing career suddenly come to an end, 18 year old Jordan Foote is surprisingly in good spirits. The former Holy Trinity high school football player is focused on rehabilitation and healing where his leg was severed just above the knee.

Asked how he felt immediately after the operation, the soft spoken young man said, “I was okay because I knew what to expect.”

Foote says he is adjusting well and that his teammates visit him “from time to time” and that he has heard from some of his teachers who offer a kind word. He is fully focused on getting better and walking again so he can move about and overcome the ordeal that he has been through.

A Manchester United fan, Foote played Under-20 as well as Super League football for Santos up to last year and does not want to go far from the game.

“I have always wanted to coach so that is what I want to do now,” he told Yardie Sports.

Asked if he wants to start at the junior level, he laughed and said, “no, kids give headache, I watch Mr. Wright and Mr. Webb and I see how they behave. I would want to start at Colts (U-16).”

The loss of his leg is only a part of the battle that Foote is fighting as he begins chemotherapy in mid-January as part of his treatment for cancer that caused him to lose his leg.

“Treatment begins about the 16^th of January,” his coach Devon Anderson advised. “We don’t know how much it will be but we have been told that it will be expensive, so right now we are seeing if we can raise funds to deal with that as well as for his physiotherapy.”

His family is unable to afford the cost for treatment and therapy so the appeal for financial assistance continues. They are however, truly grateful for the assistance they have received so far and extend thanks to all who have made contributions and offered prayers on behalf of Jordan.

Foote is missing his finally year at Holy Trinity but intends to return to school elsewhere in order to sit his CXC exams when he is able to do so.

Like any young man his age, Foote does have a Christmas wish and that is for a Play Station 4, so that he can continue to ‘play’ the game he loves so dearly.