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Common passive forms - 'foot was hurt' versus 'foot got hurt'

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Common passive forms

As you obviously know, We face a lot of situations that we need to use a passive form of a sentence, but I was wondering which one of the following forms could be both common and accurate.

For instance:

  1. My foot was hurt when I was playing football.
  2. My foot got hurt when I was playing football.

I was thinking to myself, the second one must convey the meaning with more detail, like when I was playing football, my foot got hurt by someone/something. And the first one is a bit general.

Now what I'm trying to realize is summarized by the two following questions:

  1. What is the point of view which each one carries the meaning with?
  2. Which one of the forms is more common in daily English?