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| England’s Wayne Rooney Injured Again, World Cup Fitness a Concern |
The health of Rooney has become something of a national obsession in England ever since he had to be helped from the field following his team’s Champions League loss to Bayern Munich in early April. For several days the nation hoped for the best and prepared for the worst, until Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson broke this optimistic prognosis: "(There is) no bone damage or serious ligament damage. The nation can stop praying." "It was panic. We are relieved. When we saw him hobble off, you are hoping when you send him for a scan, you get some good news and it could have been worse given the way he hobbled off. "But it's out of the way, we can put it to one side and get on with our job on the pitch." Ferguson was less witty in his latest comments on Rooney’s health following the Man U/Stoke game: "He has aggravated his groin again. I don't think it is serious. I think he will be okay for England." England team manager Fabio Capello will name his 30 man squad for the World Cup on Tuesday, and Rooney is certain to be among those selected. Earlier this month, an ‘unnamed source’ inside England’s national football hierarchy (The FA, short for ‘Football Authority’) spoke to the media on condition of anonymity and suggested that there was grave concern about Rooney’s status: "It is almost impossible for Wayne Rooney to be the player he was just a couple of months ago. Then he was in unbelievable shape." "Since then he was affected by an ankle injury, and then another injury and now another injury and gradually he is losing that perfect shape and fitness.” "We are not the happiest men in the world because of Rooney's injuries because we would have liked him at the high level he was two months ago. But we are confident we can get close, very close with the right conditioning, once we have him in our training camp in Austria.” Rooney will almost certainly be held out of a World Cup preparation game against Mexico on the notoriously rough pitch at Wembley Stadium. He may or may not play in the final preparatory game for the World Cup against Japan, meaning that his return to action could come as England opens their Group C campaign against the United States in Rustenburg on June 12. 
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Manchester United superstar striker Wayne Rooney left Sunday’s 4-0 victory over Stoke City with 13 minutes remaining, suggesting that he’d aggravated a nagging groin injury. It’s the latest of several injuries that has severely hampered Rooney’s play in the second half of the season, and the concern now is his fitness for the World Cup. Rooney is expected to play a major offensive role on England’s national team but now has just over a month before the competition begins in South Africa.
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