Having suffered a horrific broken leg playing soccer for Watlington FC when younger, and without any detail of the seriousness of Napa's injury, all I can say is there are "broken legs" and "broken legs" - In Napa's case it needed an X-Ray to determine it was broken, so one assumes it wasn't a compound fracture of Tib/Fib which would have been obvious and for a professional footballer devastating - compound fractures are generally pinned, and you can be walking on it within a week or so. In his case it sounds more likely to be a hairline fracture, which can heal much faster. After a year in hospital, with compound Tibia break, complicated by my body rejecting the steel plate, bone grafts, skin grafts and eternal infections my personal prognosis wasn't good - Guys hospital suggested removing the "dead bone" and replacing it with plastic, but the prospect of having an amputation and then having the stigma of one leg being shorter than the other was so shocking that I discharged myself - luckily the leg healed perfectly and 6m after leaving hospital I was playing again, although I definitely lost a yard of pace. Let's hope Napa has the lesser of two evils and it is "just" a hairline fracture, which for a young man like him could see him back pretty quickly - the biggest challenge may be the psychological challenge of playing without the fear that a crunching tackle will break it again. Good luck young man. Chin up
