Giuseppe Rossi

In recent articles, we have kept you updated with the increasing list of football stars who will be missing out on the biggest football tournament due to injury.

Colombia are already an impressive squad, yet the absence of their star striker Radamel Falcao must have dented their ambitions, albeit slightly. Every neutral fan was dismayed with the news that the AS Monaco star might not make the trip to Brazil this summer.

Recently, however, several indications have suggested that the player might in fact recover just in time. His club coach Claudio Ranieri also stated “He’s doing well and working hard. His knee is reacting very positively, I think he’ll play at the World Cup”. On the 26th of March, the player’s surgeon Jose Carlos Naronha confirmed that Falcao could return to playing regularly by May.

Other players who seem to be having a positive recovery process are Italy’s Giuseppe Rossi and German Sami Khedira, both experiencing the same injury yet both players’ recovery processes seem to be proceeding sublimely. Following so many injury confirmations to world class players recently, it’s a relief to know that some of these stars still have a glimmer of hope to hang on to.