David Villa has to worry about EM-participation

Euro Cup 2012 Poland

David Villa has to worry about EM-participation

The globe and European champions is in shock! Spain’s David Villa has been seriously injured in the Club Globe Cup in Japan. The striker of FC Barcelona had to be replaced with a tibia fracture – the Euro 2012 is virtually gone for him so. It is a race against time, and Villa just need what his nickname (“Villa Maravilla”) indicates: a miracle. It was still in the first half when Villa Nissan Stadium in Yokohama suddenly fell to the turf, his face contorted with pain, disbelief, horror. With a stretcher, he was taken from the field. Much less than 20 minutes it took to tv commentator Manuel Carreno, the Spanish fans for the duration of the reside broadcast on Cuatro Tv, the bad news to him: Villa, World Champion, European Champion and record of the Spanish national team shooter, is out for the European Championship. His participation was not only in danger, but even highly unlikely.That was clear at the latest right after the agonizing slow motion. “Villa are adopted virtually from the EURO,” wrote the Spanish sports day-to-day “Marca” right away on its web site, whilst in the hospital Villa Rosa was nevertheless attempting to procedure the shock. Four months, possibly even six months off will pull the fracture of the left tibia following himself – the European Championship in Poland and Ukraine will start on 8 June 2012, in about seven months. A race that can win the 30-year-old barely.
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Euro Cup 2012

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Euro Cup 2012
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