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Why England Soccer Competition Causes Injuries At Crucial TImes
Poor Rio Ferdinand is going to have to wait on dreams of the World Cup race after being ruled out of the competition mere days before the start due to a knee injury that he acquired during training.
Many people may put this down to bad luck. Some may point to Ferdinand’s injury hit season being proof that something like this was almost inevitable for the United star, others have been quick to state that it is the old “injury jinx” striking again just before a major finals event.
I don’t hold with these black magic theories and prefer to believe that the reason that so many players on the brink of wearing Englands authentic soccer apparel is down to one thing and one thing alone, the sheer intensity and the volume of matches that the top English (and those from other countries playing in the Premier League) are forced to play in an average season.
If you are playing for a top side, who have qualified for Europe, then you can expect to participating in four competitions each season. Among these are The Premier League, The FA Cup, The Champions League or Europa Cup, The Carling Cup and The FA Cup. This list doesn’t include any of the pre- and post-season games that occur in a season, or the number of pre-season friendlies in which a team can participate.
As well as playing a lot of games, England plays games with a high degree of intensity. England’s game is different from others in that it is played at a faster pace and at a higher intensity. A number of top players are known to engage in between forty and fifty difficult games in a single season, plus training.
This type of labour has dire consequences on the body of player. With so much time spent playing, it should be more surprising when a player doesn’t get injured.
Consider England’s present line-up. We’ve already had to lament the loss of Rio Ferdinand, Bobby Zamora, Owen Hargreaves, and Michael Owen from the World Cup tournament, a very sad fact, considering that they are all great players. Wolcott injured a shoulder against Stroke in 2008, leading Capello to feel that he was lacking as a player.
Then of course we look at those players who are fit Ledly King keeps his knees in top shape by utilizing a specialist trainer. Other recovering athletes with injuries this season include Steven Gerard, and Joe Cole, Ashley Cole, Aaron Lennon, Glen Johnson, Wayne Rooney and David James. People like Gareth Barry will be missing the first game of the World Cup finals against the United States. Soccer hero David Beckham finally had to call it quits after an Achilles injury pushed him out of the playing squad for the finals.
It’s an odd quirk of fate that our love of the game in England, our thirst and desire for big games at a quicker pace, more often, is seemingly at odds with the ability to produce that which almost all England fans craves more than anything else: A second World Cup winning team.
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