The Italian national soccer team’s striker and prominent member of Manchester city club: Mario Balotelli is going to skip Italy’s world cup qualifier, which is to be played against Armenia, coz of his fever. Italian Football Federation informed about his absence from the qualifier match. Cesare Prandelli, the manager of Italian national soccer team, has already included him in his probable list of eleven players, but after his fever’s confirmation; he will be replaced with Sebastian Giovinco, who will be available for Italy by Tuesday when Italy has to face Denmark. Italian soccer team’s website also mentioned team’s doctor Enrico Castellacci’s media statement where he told that Balotelli’s cold has affected him more physically than expected by him earlier. Earlier too, Balotelli had been suffering from conjunctivitis, so he did not play against England citing that he is going for a Laser eye surgery in the last international break, and this time too, he could not make himself … [Read more...]
Wayne Rooney to Captain England for World Cup Qualifier
Wembley is going to host England’s coming world cup qualifier against San Marino, but English team will be headed by a new captain - Manchester United’s striker - Wayne Rooney. This would be the first big international match for Rooney as being a captain in front of a crowd of 90000 spectators. The 26 years old starlet got its feet into captain’s shoes after England’s regular captain and vice-captain both are out for their own reasons. Though, he has the experience of captaincy, but that was just for one match against Brazil in 2009 where he captained national English soccer team. It happens to bring two surprised gifts for him: one, he got captaincy, and second is yet to come in form of a beautiful baby. Yes, he and his wife Coleen are expecting their second baby. At the moment, he and England manager Roy Hodgson both are equally existing and pressured to display their best form in this qualifier ahead of their probable world cup entry. Notably, England soccer team is ranked fifth by … [Read more...]