Comments on: A Tale of Two World Cup Fortunes

By: Ekul

Ekul — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:32:58 +0000

Poor Cissé! Being a huge Liverpool supporter I really feel sorry for him, having both his legs broken now (Left leg at Ewood Park after a nasty tumble, and now another tumble broke his right leg.) Poor guy, well, that’s apparently what £14,000,000 is, an injury hit striker who isn’t the best, but should be with his pace and price, but he just isn’t as consistant for Liverpool or France as he was for Auxerre.

By: Altintop

Altintop — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:38:56 +0000

I feel sorry for Cisse, right before the start of the tournament. I bet missing the world cup will hurt more than breaking the leg. Now he broke the second leg in the same maner as the first one, I hope for his own sake that clubs will not be signing him anymore and this would the end for him. Once more this won’t be the case and that we will see Cisse soon at club level that is; to be honest he wasn’t much of an international player.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:06:23 +0000

Often I don’t appreciate the level of journalism on worldcupblog; but in this case, great caption.

Poor Djebril; condolences; may the French rebound from this setback or as L’Equipe quipped “catastrophe.”

By: zé

zé — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:33:32 +0000

Jesus, that’s pretty painful to watch. It doesn’t however look like the charge was anything out of the ordinary though, so I guess the Chinese guy is feeling pretty bad.

Worse for Cisse and for France though. They didn’t need that right now. :/

As for Rooney, will he actually be fit? It’s not easy to get back from an injury… he’ll probably get to play, but just in the second half and stuff like that. Which’s a shame too, I wanted to see all national teams at their best.

By: Vin

Vin — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:46:02 +0000

Yeah… not really reckless. At first, I was like “Those damn Chinese! Don’t they know what a friendly is,” and then I saw that this was just a freak accident. I’ll bet the Chinese guy feels bad.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:27:45 +0000

Agreed. It wasn’t a reckless challenge just an awkward break for a player whose legs seem to be made of wood.

By: sooz

sooz — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:43:42 +0000

Comments from Zheng:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/sports/2006-06/08/content_611974.htm

By: fritz

fritz — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:22:12 +0000

Never have liked Cisse very much but it is terrible to see him go out this close to the World Cup. That challenge by the Chinese player was really uncalled for.

By: matilda

matilda — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 05:46:16 +0000

The challenge wasn’t really reckless – he just fell at an awkward angle and the leg completely snapped. This is the second time Cisse’s broken his leg but luckily, it’s not the same one as last time. That would probably have killed his career for good. France must be seriously distraught. It was horrible to watch – I flinched.

By: Pedro P

Pedro P — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 04:58:33 +0000

Read that the guy’s right leg was kinda “bend”, so serious the fracture was…