Michael Owen Out of 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa!

Imagine that you are a talented football player butafter training for the UEFA champions league fixture
struggling to retain your place in the national footballon Sunday. He pointed out that even though these
team. You find out there is a football match coming upthings happen to footballers and he was not really
where you will be playing and the coach of the nationalworried about it, the injury would still keep Owen out
football team will be watching you from the stands!for two to three weeks. He will therefore miss
What better opportunity can you ask for?Manchester United's English Premier League fixtures
Well, you cannot ask for a better chance to impressagainst Bolton and Sunderland.
the coach than that. The Manchester United strikerThe most worrying part of the whole Owen episode is
Michael Owen had a similar chance the other nightthat Owen will be unable to take part in England's
against Wolfsburg in Manchester United's championsWorld Cup qualifiers against Ukraine and Belarus. Many
league fixture. And though it was the best chance tofear this will mean that Owen might not become a
impress the coach,Michael Owen had a disastrouspart of Capello's plans for the World Cup in South
time in the field. He was seen limping off the ground inAfrica next summer.
front of Fabio Capello, the English National team'sThis is not only frustrating for Michael Owen, but also
coach. This happened when Owen had been on thefor his fans who thought the striker would find his old
field for only 20 minutes.flair after arriving at Manchester United's Old Trafford
Manchester United's coach Alex Fergusan blamed theStadium. The future doesn't look good for Michael
wet surface for Owen's injury. He also revealed thatOwen. The most frustrating part of this all is that
that Michael Owen had suffered a slight groin injuryMichael can only wait and see how his fate is decided.