LAFC goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau to miss World Cup because of broken leg
LA TimesLAFC goalie Maxime Crepeau, bottom left, and the Philadelphia Union’s Mikael Uhre, right, collide during the MLS Cup final Saturday. LAFC goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau sustained a broken leg in the collision that knocked him out of the club’s MLS Cup victory over the Philadelphia Union, the team said Sunday, announcing that he underwent successful surgery to repair the fracture. The recovery from surgery will keep Crepeau out of the World Cup later this month in Qatar, where he was expected to play for Canada, and will sideline him for the start of the MLS regular season in February. Crepeau was injured during the second extra-time period Saturday at Banc of California Stadium when he came off his line to challenge Philadelphia’s Cory Burke, who had come free on a breakaway and only had the goalkeeper to beat.
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