David Beckham operado

"I've been reading that Capello (England coach) wants to be with the team. We'll talk with them to see if you have time and if possible. I am sure that if you are around here, it may do," said Jordaan. The 2010 World Cup Organizing Committee (LOC) is not resigned to the absence in the championship of David Beckham, one of the most popular players on the planet, and will provide a leading role in the opening ceremony. "He still has enormous appeal in South Africa, "said LOC chief executive Danny Jordaan was quoted by The Star, who recalled the swarm of cameras chased into English on its way through Cape Town during the group draw last December.

"I've been reading that Capello (England coach) wants to be with the team. We'll talk with them to see if you have time and if possible. I am sure that if you are around here, it may do," said Jordaan. Beckham seriously injured ten days ago in the Achilles tendon during a match at the Giuseppe Meazza in Milan, during an Italian League game of football against Chievo Verona.

The player of the Los Angeles Galaxy, on loan to AC Milan during the winter, was operated in Turku (Finland) and the recovery period will prevent you play the World Cup with England, a disaster for the combined English and also for the player, which is ready to play its fourth and final World Cup. Beckham, 34, is expected in South Africa during the World Cup, as will many other soccer personalities, but the LOC does not want his trip is not testimonial but their presence helps to make more striking the championship.

The England midfielder is fit and could leave the hospital next Wednesday, depending on your progress. The England midfielder David Beckham had surgery today for a torn Achilles tendon in his left foot in the clinic Mehiläinen of Turku (Finland), according to the surgeon who attended him, the Finn Sakari Orava, the intervention was "a success .

The doctor, one of the best specialist in muscle injury and ligaments, told local press that Beckham's Achilles tendon was completely broken, so it took about 50 minutes to complete the operation.

According Orava, the England midfielder is fit and could leave the hospital next Wednesday, depending on your progress.

The footballer's wife, singer Victoria Beckham will travel to Finland from Los Angeles to accompany her husband after the operation, according to spokesman family.

Beckham's injury will keep away from the pitch during the remainder of the season, forcing him to almost certainly miss the World Cup South Africa 2010 begins next June 11.

The LA Galaxy's England international, currently on loan at Milan, was injured Sunday in a solo action when was a few minutes to the end of the meeting of the Italian first division team from Milan and Chievo Verona.

Following the first test and verify that there was a tear, Milan medical services phoned late at Finnish surgeon to ask him to practice surgery as soon as possible.

Sakari Orava is one of the world's foremost authorities in muscle and tendon surgery, and throughout his career he has performed over 20,000 operations, some of them to elite athletes.

His long patient list includes famous names like the players Marco van Basten, Josep Guardiola, David Trezeguet or Pierluigi Casiraghi, with athletes Haile Gebrselassie, Marta Dominguez and Juan Carlos de la Ossa, among many others.