When David Beckham suffered a torn Achilles’ tendon in a Italian league game in mid-March, doctors gave him an outside chance of returning in time for the World Cup or at the very least part of the MLS season. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like either of these favorable scenarios will transpire. In a recent statement Beckham broke the news that his recovery is behind schedule and he won’t be able to resume playing soccer until November at the earliest.
This timetable does leave open the possibility that he could return to action should the Los Angeles Galaxy make the MLS playoffs. As far as a potential return to England’s national team the first realistic opportunity for Beckham to play would be in a European Championship qualifier against Wales in March 2011. He’s been assured that he’s welcome back at AC Milan in Italy’s Serie A league whenever he’s back in playing shape.
Beckham, who is still using crutches to get around, explained his recovery process:
“I won’t be running for another three months, so I will be playing again in, probably, November.”
“My mentality is to kind of push it and get moving and running and soon as possible. But it’s an injury that has to take time to heal. It’s frustrating. It’s obviously disappointing because I’ve been working for the last two years to get into the English squad [for the World Cup].”
“At the moment, it’s just getting the motion back into the ankle, the tendon, because it’s …
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The Queensland of Australia is one of the fastest growing tourist regions in the world and Australia really knows how to sell this region to the public. With so much sunshine, they have for a long time been calling the Queensland the Sunshine State and with good reason as there is very little rainfall in this region, another factor that also makes it an excellent tourist region year round.
In an attempt to further boost tourism, Tourism Queensland, will be unveiling their latest slogan for the region at an event to take place on the Gold Coast. The new saying, designed to take the place of the old one, Where Else But Queensland, is going to help express the true nature of the region with the new tagline, Queensland, Where Australia Shines. This is truly a much better slogan.
This change of slogan will be additionally supported by an investment of over four million dollars for a campaign. This push will help to propel this region to the top for sure in tourist destinations, in addition Oprah will be coming to visit here soon. so press coverage will help as well. The campaign will be comprehensive and stretch across the globe so that everyone will be aware of this area.
This region should recieve more visitors as it has fantastic beaches and weather which makes it a wonderful destination for tourists. This area also contains the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest so it has a fantastic natural importance …
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The bizarre career path taken by Croatian striking machine Mirko Cro Cop will continue on New Years Eve in Tokyo as he faces 72 Korean kickboxer Hong-Man Choi in what should be the final addition to the K-1/DREAM combined show called Fields Dynamite!. The matchup adds even more striking firepower to a lineup that already includes K-1 mainstays Peter Aerts, Mighty Mo, and Semmy Schlit along with top DREAM fighters including Shinya Aoki, Joachim Hansen, Eddie Alverez and Gesias Calvacante.
For Cro Cop, its another stop on what has seemed like a meandering professional course full of much talk and little action since his departure from the UFC. In September 10, 2007, Cro Cop had just won PRIDE’s Open Weight Grand Prix in dominant fashion. In the process, he defeated Wanderlei Silva and Josh Barnett on the same night and some were suggesting that he, and not Fedor Emelianenko, was the best heavyweight fighter in the world.
Cro Cops upset loss to Gabriel Gonzaga changed that and his career his never really recovered. In what was supposed to be a “tune up” bout, Gonzaga smothered Cro Cop and roughed him up on the ground before unleashing his own version of Cro Cop’s signature kick. Mirko never saw it coming, and he crashed to the mat like he’d been shot with his leg folded awkwardly beneath him. Gonzaga went on to face Randy Couture, and the former Croatian anti-terrorism cop was relegated to being just another heavyweight.
Since the loss to …
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