Subscribe to RSSBECKHAM’S RETURN TAKING LONGER THAN EXPECTED
Part-time underwear model, part-time soccer star David Beckham’s recovery is taking longer than initially expected with hopes now to play come November.
This comes as bad news for the MLS Western Conference defending champion LA Galaxy. With Beckham out through November, he will miss the entire MLS season as they look to return to the MLS Cup this year.
After sustaining Achilles tendon damage, Beckham underwent surgery this past March, with the expectation to return to play by the end of August.
“I won’t be running for another three months, so I will be playing again in, probably, November,” Beckham said in a video posted Monday on ABC’s website.
“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,” Beckham said in a separate TV interview. “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].”
Beckham who once hoped to take the field in South Africa this summer is now unable to do so. However, he will make the trek with the team to watch from the sideline.
“At the moment, it’s just getting the motion back into the ankle, the tendon, because it’s still repairing,” Beckham said on the MLS website. “I’m trying to get mobilization back into the ankle.”
Beckham was injured on a play where he was untouched during a match with his club AC Milan.
“It was like being hit by a hockey puck. I thought someone was behind me and kicked me,” Beckham said. “Obviously no one was there and I saw my foot hanging and then I felt down there and there was a hole.”
As a soccer fan, even if you don’t support England or Beckham, it has been painful to watch what seems like player after player being injured just months before heading to what they have been preparing their entire lives for. Soccer Jones wishes the speediest of recoveries to all of these players.
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2010-04-27
12:15:43
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