{"id":568255,"date":"2010-05-18T08:58:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T12:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/?p=10990"},"modified":"2010-05-18T08:58:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T12:58:18","slug":"a-dream-that-is-to-end-germany%e2%80%99s-captain-will-not-play-on-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/568255","title":{"rendered":"A Dream that is to End:  Germany\u2019s Captain will not play on World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/ENG_michael_ballack_600128g.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10993\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/ENG_michael_ballack_600128g-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sad for Germany\u2019s captain <strong>Michael Ballack<\/strong> because he\u2019ll not be able to play in the <strong>World Cup <\/strong>because of a broken ligament. The <strong>33-year-old <\/strong><strong>Chelsea<\/strong><strong> <\/strong>midfielder was hurt during his club&#8217;s 1-0 FA Cup final victory over Portsmouth on Saturday, according to NBC sports. A scan showed damage to two ligaments but it\u2019s expected to be eight weeks before he can resume training and Germany\u2019s first match is on June 13. Ballack was injured after a challenge by <strong>Portsmouth<\/strong><strong>\u2019s Kevin-Prince Boateng. <\/strong>Ballack stated that the damage from the tackle made by Boateng was<strong> <\/strong><strong><em>\u201cclearly intentional\u201d<\/em><\/strong> and even a video can testify to it.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s bitter to get a diagnosis like that before the World Cup,\u201d<\/em> he said. Right, it is really a sad fact knowing that you will not be able to play on your most awaited game. Ballack might be feeling upset now because he will not be able to play with his team mates and fight for their goal which is the World Cup. Ballack also stated that there\u2019s naturally a lot of disappointment, but despite all of this, we can see that he still looks on the positive side by saying <em>\u201c\u2026that\u2019s football. That happens. Life goes on.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the side of Boateng, he is the only one who<strong> <\/strong>knows what he intended with his foul from behind on Ballack. He may never tell, although some Portsmouth teammates say Boateng, who also missed a penalty kick that would have given Portsmouth the lead, was in tears in the locker room after the final, which Chelsea won by the only goal.<\/p>\n<p>This coming <strong>World Cup <\/strong>can be interesting if the players will be fair and not use violence in eliminating their opponents. They should have the spirit of sportsmanship whereby, whether they win or lose, they will still accept it.<\/p>\n<p>No related posts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/sevensidedcube\/OXLF\/~4\/RU-rL1MLygw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s sad for Germany\u2019s captain Michael Ballack because he\u2019ll not be able to play in the World Cup because of a broken ligament. The 33-year-old Chelsea midfielder was hurt during his club&#8217;s 1-0 FA Cup final victory over Portsmouth on Saturday, according to NBC sports. A scan showed damage to two ligaments but it\u2019s expected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}