World Cup injury/missing list

World Cup injury/missing list

MICHAEL BALLACK, Germany

The German captain was ruled out of the finals with an ankle injury after a late challenge by Ghana's Kevin-Prince Boateng during Chelsea's FA Cup final win over Portsmouth in May.

RIO FERDINAND, England

The England captain will miss the finals after injuring his knee in his country's first major training session in South Africa on Friday.

MICHAEL ESSIEN, Ghana

The Ghana midfielder suffered a knee injury at the African Nations Cup in January and has failed to recover in time.

JOHN OBI MIKEL, Nigeria

The midfielder was forced out of the tournament with a badly bruised ankle suffered in Nigeria's first full contact training session in South Africa on Friday.

LASSANA DIARRA, France

The holding midfielder will not play in South Africa after being told he needed an extended rest because of persistent stomach pains which began during France's week-long training camp in the French Alps last month.

DAVID BECKHAM, England

England's most capped outfield player ruptured his Achilles tendon playing for his loan club AC Milan in March.

RENE ADLER, Germany

Germany's first-choice goalkeeper underwent surgery on a rib injury in May and will play no part in the finals.

SIMON ROLFES, Germany

The midfielder ruled himself out of the World Cup after saying he was short of match fitness following knee surgery in January.

CHRISTIAN TRAESCH, Germany

The midfielder, who was considered a possible replacement for captain Michael Ballack, is out after injuring his ankle in a friendly at the squad's training camp in Italy.

HEIKO WESTERMANN, Germany

The defender will miss the tournament after fracturing a bone in his foot during a warm-up win over Hungary last week.

MIROSLAV KARHAN, Slovakia

Slovakia's most capped player has a hamstring injury and will miss his country's first World Cup appearance.

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DOUBTFUL

DIDIER DROGBA, Ivory Coast

The Ivory Coast's fearsome striker underwent successful surgery on an injured elbow on Saturday but remains a doubt for the finals. Drogba picked up the injury in a World Cup warm-up against Japan on Friday.

ARJEN ROBBEN, Netherlands

The Dutch winger needs a scan to determine the extent of a hamstring injury he suffered in a 6-1 friendly thrashing of Hungary on Saturday.

ANDREA PIRLO, Italy

The Italian midfielder will miss the defending champions' opening game of the tournament against Paraguay, and possibly the whole tournament, after injuring his calf in Thursday's 2-1 friendly defeat by Mexico.

HARRY KEWELL, Australia

The Australian winger has hardly played since December because of a troublesome groin injury.

TIM BROWN, New Zealand

It is unknown if the New Zealand vice-captain will recover in time from surgery on a fractured shoulder suffered in the friendly defeat to Australia last month.

HUMBERTO SUAZO, Chile

Chile's leading striker will reportedly miss their opening World Cup match against Honduras and possibly the second game with Switzerland because of a hamstring injury.

LEE DONG-GUK, South Korea

The South Korean striker was named in the final 23-man squad despite concerns over a thigh problem which is expected to keep him out of their opening game against Greece on June 12.

Who's next?

Roger Daltrey ...?

Anyone who plays for Chelski

Diego Forlan injured but may be OK. Same with Tim Cahill.

Germany... LOL

I thought clubs only pulled their players for friendlies, like Man U

What about that Paraguay strikers who got shot in the head.  Last I heard he was making a quick recovery.

Brad Jones.

Aus number 2 keeper, may be replaced by Galekovic as his son has just been diagnosed with Lukaemia.
Hard News2010-06-07 19:41:06

Hope he is ok. Good call on his part by going home.

As quick as can be expected for someone with a bullet in his head (not sure if they actually removed it as it was considered too risky)

There a was a report a few weeks back now that he was playing a few games of football at his rehab centre. But still doubtful if he will ever play top flight football again.

I guess he will get sick of people saying "snap out of it man. It's all in your head!"

apparently Martin Skertyl took a knock to the ankle in slovakia's last warm up match and was carted off for a scan

Paulinho2010-06-07 22:03:14

Brad Jones went to Europe, where his wife is with their son. Hope all will be ok with young lad.

@ topic: Nani is in doubt.

Nani officially out with a collarbone injury, replaced by Ruben Amorim.

I struggle to sympathize with Nani.

Infact, screw it, GREAT NEWS!

4-0? LOL and who can forget his goal this year.

I will miss him.
Bullion2010-06-09 13:07:35

Yeah, no Nani is rubbish. He was one good reason for me to support Portugal, though I would like to see Cristiano do well.

What?  I assume the goal you're talking about was the one against Arsenal in the 3-1 (or was it 3-0) win, but don't know what this 4-0 thing is.
loyalgunner2010-06-09 16:00:02

I thought a lot of you arse supporters dont like Nani due to him taking the mickey against you lot on a number of occasions, most notably when Man Utd beat Arsenal 4-0 in the FA cup a couple of years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-709TRnPa4&feature=fvw

Genius.

Oh I see.  My mistake, I haven't watched/cared a lot about the FA Cup since 2005, so missed that completely.  I just think he's a whinging petulant t**ser generally, though his recent goal against Arsenal was particularly hard to swallow.

Still think Portugal will make it out of this group to knockout stage of WC.