Rooney Out for World Cup

I am not sure if this has been covered, but if you follow world soccer then you know English striker Wayne Rooney was injured a few days ago. When the contact happened between him and a Chelsea defender no one really noticed it until Rooney didn’t get up. It was the 79th minute of the semi-finals game between Chelsea and Manchester United. Even after Rooney was carried off the field in a stretcher the field medical crew examined him and Man Utd’s coach, Sir Alex Ferguson says that, he wont be playing until Monday, thinking it’s a small sprain, nothing serious. After Rooney was examined by his doctor he had come time find out that the break he has got in the fourth metatarsal is a small fracture. Rooney is out for six weeks which makes him almost not eligible for the world cup and even if he gets out of a cast in time he won’t be the same player, which puts England in a tight spot for strikers.

Date
Thu 05/04/06, 8:19 pm EST

Source

 * www.yahoo.com