David Beckham’s injury is a desperately sad way to end his World Cup dream – Soccer news

Category Featured, soccer | Monday, March 15th, 2010

David Beckham has fallen victim to the silent assassin of footballers, the snapped Achilles, the injury that occurs even when no opponent is close by, the incapacitation that brings curtains down on careers.
Even for those who felt his usefulness to the England national team had long gone, this is a desperately sad development.

Medicine has advanced, of course, and Beckham is a tough character, but for anyone with any knowledge of England’s history, the news that Beckham flies out to Finland on Monday for an operation is particularly poignant. Helsinki was the setting for England’s past grim experience with such Achilles injuries.

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