The Arsenal Foundation helped Helder Silva, one of our longest-serving Arsenal Amputee footballers, represent England at the Amputee World Cup. Here’s how he and the Three Lions got on…
“My second Amputee World Cup took place in Istanbul, Turkey across September and October 2022. The competition welcomed 24 nations in total, and it was another major tournament for England, who finished fifth at Euro 2020 after being knocked out in the quarter-finals. Before that we had the last World Cup in 2018 in which we finished in sixth place.
“We set off for Istanbul with the youngest squad in the whole tournament – a squad full of young cubs coming through the ranks of the junior programme with The Eafa.