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Coyle Won’t Stand In the Way of Cahill

Bolton manager Owen Coyle will not block Gary Cahill from moving away if a big club comes in with a lucrative bid for the defender. Cahill has been linked with a summer switch to several top clubs in England.

Cahill has won the admiration of Manchester United and the 24-year-old’s high-quality performances this season have seen his reputation grow and become an option for Fabio Capello’s England squad for the World Cup.

And Coyle says he will not stand in the way of Cahill’s ambition.

“I have always said, regardless of what club I am at, that if there comes a time when any player outgrows the football club, I won’t be the person to stand in their way,” Coyle said.

“I said it to my Burnley lads when I was there – if there is something better for them out there, then they would go and blossom. That will be the same with Gary Cahill.

“I have got everything crossed that Gary gets to the World Cup because if he does he will be terrific, if he is allowed the opportunity.

“And if that means that he is elevated to a position where they are all going to clamour for him, then good luck for Gary Cahill.”

Meanwhile Coyle stated his belief that Cahill is better than Tottenham defender and England squad rival Michael Dawson, describing his defender as the “full package”

“For me, Gary Cahill is the full package – and he is only 24, and getting better.”

Ortego Recalled To Argentina Squad

Argentina coach Diego Maradona on Wednesday handed veteran midfielder Ariel Ortega a surprise recall to the national team for a friendly international against Haiti and a chance to pull on the Argentina World Cup shirt in South Africa.

Ortega, who took part in the 1994, 1998 and 2006 World Cups, has been pondering retirement after facing serious personal problems in recent years, including a battle with alchohol.

Maradona, who has used over 100 players since taking over as coach in 2008, was forced to dig deep into his reserves once he knew he was unable to call on his Europe-based stars for the May 5 game at Cutral-Co, 1,200km to the south-west of Buenos Aires.

The game, aimed at raising funds for the Haiti earthquake relief fund, will probably be the last for Ortega who has played in three World Cups.

Maradona has also called up a new goalkeeper in Adrian Gabbarini of Independiente while Boca Juniors striker Martin Palermo, who like Ortega is also 36, was also named in the squad.

Argentina are in Group B at the June 11-July 11 World Cup with South Korea, Nigeria and Greece.

2010 FIFA South Africa World Cup WII Game

The Wii offers a completely different way of playing the new FIFA 2010 World Cup game a way that no other console can. The Wii is often associated with more fun games than serious sports ones but they have really pulled off something special with the new Wii version of the South Africa 2010 World Cup game.

In the chart below you will see the prices for the Wii South Africa 2010 World Cup game prices compared for you so that you can get the lowest price when you buy the game.

- Win the 2010 FIFA World Cup: Compete as one of 199 teams in a virtual reproduction of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Represent your favourite country and play in any of the 10 official stadiums that come to life with the pageantry and festivity of the official tournament.

- Play the Official Tournament with Friends: You and up to 31 friends can re-create the official tournament. Choose a country and advance through the tournament by taking on and defeating your friends one at a time to write your own history.

- Spectacular Presentation: 2010 FIFA World Cup comes to life in spectacular fashion with a South African art style designed for Wii that captures the emotion and pageantry of the official tournament, including all 10 official licensed stadia. Experience confetti cannons, streamers, flags and fireworks as if you were in South Africa.

- Global Elimination Tournament: Compete in Global Elimination, a multiplayer, knockout-style tournament against up to three friends. Draft and strategically select countries to play as, create alliances and gang-up on rivals until only one player is declared the winner.

- Build Zakumi’s Dream Team: Take on all 32 countries who have qualified for the World Cup in head-to-head matches with challenges. Begin with random players and then steal your opponents’ players after each victory. Win a challenge and pick a player until you have conquered the world. Take your Dream Team to a friend’s house on your Wii Remote.

- Strike It System: Non-stop football action pits you against friends in head-to-head challenges utilising the Strike It System. Shake the Wii Remote perfectly in order to either score or defend free-kicks, penalties, and corners, creating frantic action on the pitch.

- User-Controlled Celebrations: Score a goal and then use the +Control Pad to pull off celebrations and admire your performance via a new close-in camera that really delivers the emotion of each goal scored.

- Earn Awards: For the first time on Wii, earn awards by scoring goals or completing tasks.

- Pick-up-and-Play Controls: New, accessible control scheme option enables even newcomers to videogames to compete for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Choose to play the style that best suits your skills, from All-Play for novices to Pro Control for experienced players.

- Authentic Stadiums: Compete in all 10 official stadiums of 2010 FIFA World Cup.

2010 South Africa FIFA World Cup PS3 Game

The World Cup is fast approaching and FIFA, in collaboration with EA, have released their new World Cup game. The 2010 Fifa World Cup PS3 looks set to be one of the biggest selling games this year with a lot more added features to this years World Cup game. The PS3 is the most powerful console on the market at the moment so it will be able to use the full graphics in the new PS3 Fifa 2010 World Cup game. The 2010 World Cup will be the first one that has been held in Africa so all eyes will be on South Africa during teh tournament to see if it goes well and if the team can progress through to the later stages.

In the chart below we have compared the prices of the latest PS3 2010 South Africa World Cup game so you can get the best possible price when buying the game.

- Win the 2010 FIFA World Cup: Compete as one of 199 teams from qualification right through to a virtual reproduction of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final. Play in any of the 10 official stadiums that come to life with the pageantry and festivity of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

- 2010 FIFA World Cup Online: The first-ever full and authentic 2010 FIFA World Cup online tournament. Compete as your favourite country against rivals in the group stage through the knockout rounds to be crowned 2010 FIFA World Cup champion. Navigate the Globe to locate top countries and opponents among all 199 participating nations.

- Spectacular Presentation: The 2010 FIFA World Cup comes to life in spectacular fashion with all the emotion and pageantry of the official tournament, including all 10 official licensed stadiums. Experience confetti cannons, streamers, giant banners, seat cards, flags and fireworks as if you were in South Africa.

- Battle Of The Nations: Represent your country in the 2010 FIFA World Cup online tournament against your rivals to win global supremacy. Earn individual and team points and prove your nation is the best. Every performance is rated, recorded and uploaded and your ratings all count towards player and nation leaderboards.

- Home & Away Tactics: CPU mimics international football by creating strategic, defensive formations for weaker teams playing away from home. Plus, weaker teams raise their level of play on their home pitch.

- Altitude Effects: Less air resistance at altitude means the ball travels faster and further. Plus, player will noticeably fatigue faster and their stamina challenged while playing in cities at higher elevations versus sea level.

- Authentic Stadiums: Compete in all 10 official stadiums of 2010 FIFA World Cup.

2010 FIFA South Africa World Cup Xbox 360 Game

The World Cup without doubt is the worlds biggest sporting event and this summer we will see the tournament played in Africa for the first time with South Africa hosting the tournament. As with every year the World Cup is on FIFA always release a new World Cup game. The Xbox 360 Fifa 2010 World Cup game looks set to be one of the biggest selling games this summer with added features incorporated into the new game that FIFA have never put in before. The game is developed by EA who are known for their sports games and FIFA 2010 World Cup on the Xbox 360 looks like being one of their best yet.

Below we have compared the price of the Xbox version of the FIFA2010 South Africa World Cup game so you can get the very best deal on the game.

- Win the 2010 FIFA World Cup: Compete as one of 199 teams from qualification right through to a virtual reproduction of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final. Play in any of the 10 official stadiums that come to life with the pageantry and festivity of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

- 2010 FIFA World Cup Online: The first-ever full and authentic 2010 FIFA World Cup online tournament. Compete as your favourite country against rivals in the group stage through the knockout rounds to be crowned 2010 FIFA World Cup champion. Navigate the Globe to locate top countries and opponents among all 199 participating nations.

- Spectacular Presentation: The 2010 FIFA World Cup comes to life in spectacular fashion with all the emotion and pageantry of the official tournament, including all 10 official licensed stadiums. Experience confetti cannons, streamers, giant banners, seat cards, flags and fireworks as if you were in South Africa.

- Battle Of The Nations: Represent your country in the 2010 FIFA World Cup online tournament against your rivals to win global supremacy. Earn individual and team points and prove your nation is the best. Every performance is rated, recorded and uploaded and your ratings all count towards player and nation leaderboards.

- Home & Away Tactics: CPU mimics international football by creating strategic, defensive formations for weaker teams playing away from home. Plus, weaker teams raise their level of play on their home pitch.

- Altitude Effects: Less air resistance at altitude means the ball travels faster and further. Plus, player will noticeably fatigue faster and their stamina challenged while playing in cities at higher elevations versus sea level.

- Authentic Stadiums: Compete in all 10 official stadiums of 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Platini Names England Amongst World Cup Favourites

UEFA president Michel Platini named Brazil, England and Spain as favourites for the World Cup that kicks off in South Africa in June, but held out little hope for his own country France.

“I have three favourites,” the former France captain, a beaten semi-finalist at the 1982 and 1986 tournaments, told The Times newspaper.

“Normally I have four favourites, but this time I have three: Brazil, Spain and England.

“Favourites, for me, means they have the quality and the capability to win, that they are the three best teams in the world.

“But if you play against France or Germany or Italy, you?re not sure to win. Those three are the best teams to win and behind them you have ten teams that will be very difficult to beat.”

Platini justified his choice of England as one of the favourites for the June 11-July 11 World Cup because of coach Fabio Capello’s nous and the form of key players such as John Terry, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard and Wayne Rooney will hopefully all be fit to pull on the England World Cup Jersey in South Africa.

“Why England? Because they have good players. Good players and a good coach. It’s a long time since you won the World Cup and I think you have a good team.

“Great players, from Terry to Lampard and Gerrard, Rooney. You have a good team.”

He added: “Rooney is very good. He is a wonderful player. I didn’t need to see him in the past months to see he was a good player.

“(Lionel) Messi was good at 20, now he’s better at 22. Rooney is the same. Gerrard, too. I love Gerrard.”

Platini refused to back down from his assessment of the English Premier League’s decision not to have a winter break making the national team “lions in the winter and lambs in the summer”.

“Yes I did say that before,” he told the newspaper. “I don’t think it’s the best preparation for a national team for the World Cup to be without a winter break.

“I know Boxing Day football is a legend in England, but you have to decide.”

Platini was less upbeat about the prospects of his own country at the World Cup.

“There are good individuals in the group, but, let’s be clear, there is no great individual,” he said.

Gilardino Thins Pazzini should Get Italy Call

Fiorentina striker Alberto Gilardino has backed his former team-mate Giampaolo Pazzini to pull on the Italy World Cup shirt this summer after the forward netted two goals against Roma on Sunday.

Pazzini scored both of Sampdoria’s goals in their 2-1 victory over Roma on Sunday, taking his tally up to 17 in Serie A this season.

“I am happy for him. I believe that he deserves to go to the World Cup and I hope to find him in South Africa,” Gilardino told Domenica Sportiva.

“Pazzini chose to leave Florence because he needed to play, just like I did with Milan. And now his decision has paid off,” the former Milan striker concluded.

Italy boss Marcello Lippi is said to have already decided to take Gilardino and Juventus striker Vincenzo Iaquinta to the World Cup.

Pazzini is competing with the likes of Antonio Di Natale, Marco Borriello, Giuseppe Rossi and Luca Toni for one of the remaining three places up front.

Rooney Wins Player Of The Year Award

Manchester United and England striker Wayne Rooney won the Professional Footballers’ Association player of the year award at a ceremony here on Sunday and then declared his readiness for the World Cup.

Rooney, currently out of action with a groin injury, is widely regarded as being central to England’s chances of winning the World Cup in South Africa later this year.

“I’m good,” Rooney told guests at the PFA dinner at Grosvenor House in central London.

“I’m disappointed to miss a couple of games. Hopefully I will play before the season finishes.”

Asked if he would be fit in time for South Africa, Rooney replied: “No problems for the World Cup.”

Rooney dismissed suggestions England could not win the World Cup, which starts in June, without him: “We’ve got a lot of great players. If I get injured, so be it.”

He added: “Watching games is very frustrating.”

Rooney, asked for a definition of World Cup success, said: “Success would be to win the trophy. We prepared well and hopefully we can bring the trophy back home.”

England have won the World Cup just once, in 1966 when they triumphed on home soil.

Reigning champions United trail Chelsea by one point in the English Premier League title race with two games remaining and may need a favour from arch rivals Liverpool if they are to overtake the London club.

“I’m sure Liverpool will want to beat Chelsea,” Rooney said.

“They are a proud club and they are still aiming to qualify for Europe.”

Asked what had made the difference to a season where he has already scored 34 goals, Rooney replied: “The manager (Sir Alex Ferguson) is playing me in a more central position up front which I’ve been asking him to do for a few years now and the service has got better.”

Rooney, twice a former young player of the year, topped a poll of his fellow professionals in England to ensure the senior award stayed at Old Trafford after Cristiano Ronaldo’s double in 2007 and 2008 was followed by United great Ryan Giggs’s success last year.

Cesc Fabregas, the Arsenal and Spain midfielder, was third with Chelsea striker Didier Drogda the runner-up.

Aston Villa and England midfielder James Milner won the young player of the year award.

Former South Africa international Lucas Radebe, who played in England’s Leeds United, won the PFA special merit award for his community work in both countries.

Nakamura Encourages Japanese Players To Move Abroad

Former Celtic star Shunsuke Nakamura has criticised his fellow countrymen as insular for staying at home and urged them to play abroad for their own good and to boost Japan’s place in world football.

“Players really need to just get out of Japan and go and play overseas. They are too pampered in the environment they are in here,” the midfield schemer told Kyodo news agency in an interview published Thursday.

“It would be great for the national team if there were 20 players overseas and 13 of them were getting called up for international duty,” added the left-footed playmaker, known for his pinpoint passing and free-kicks.

Nakamura, 31, returned to his old J-League home Yokohama F. Marinos in February after completing only six months of a two-year deal with Espanyol, where he struggled to get a game, playing only 13 La Liga matches.

With the World Cup in South Africa fast approaching, Junichi Inamoto quit Rennes to join Kawasaki Frontale in January, while Shinji Ono signed with another J-League outfit, Shimizu S-Pulse, after leaving Bochum.

There are about 10 Japanese still plying their trade in Europe, including CSKA Moscow’s Keisuke Honda, Makoto Hasebe of Wolfsburg and Grenoble’s Daisuke Matsui — all midfielders who have regularly worn the Blue Samurai shirt.

Japan coach Takeshi Okada has also started calling up Catania striker Takayuki Morimoto as the Asian champions, lacking firepower, face Cameroon, the Netherlands and Denmark in a tough World Cup group.

Nakamura, who started his seven-and-a-half-year stint in Europe at Italy’s Reggiana and helped Celtic to the Scottish Premier League title three times, admitted the Spanish league was tough.

“I was only there for a short time but learned so many things. When you are professional, results are everything,” he told Kyodo. “At the end of the day, I didn’t get playing time simply because I couldn’t make the cut.”

But he said fear of not playing regularly should not stop other Japanese players following in his footsteps.

“Of course players are scared that if they go abroad and don’t get picked then their national team chances will be in jeopardy,” he said, “but if you really want to improve as a player then go and you will improve.”

Torres Thinks Spain England Final Is On The Cards

Liverpool striker Fernando Torres believes that England have what it takes to be a finalist at the World Cup if they can get over their traditional mental meltdown at the quarter-final stage.

The former Atletico Madrid player hailed fellow Reds team-mate Steven Gerrard as “the greatest central midfielder on the planet” in his appraisal of England’s individual qualities.

Torres, who transferred from Madrid to Liverpool in 2008, agrees with the bookmakers that England should be one of the main rivals to Spain at the World Cup in South Africa based on the way their team lines up on paper.

Unlike many of his international team-mates, the Spain striker is in a position to judge England’s quality up close in his role as one of the Premier League’s leading players.

But unlike many observers, who place Brazil alongside Spain with England leading the other contenders, Torres feels England are in the top two and a final between Spain and England would be the fixture befitting football’s showpiece match.

“If England can overcome their mental barrier then Spain versus England would be the perfect World Cup final,” Torres told the Daily Express.

“People say that Spain have the best starting XI in the world but when you look at England on paper, they have the second strongest XI in the world.

“In John Terry and Rio Ferdinand they have two of the best defenders. Stevie Gerrard is the greatest central midfielder on the planet and Wayne Rooney is one of the in-form players in football along with Lionel Messi. It’s hard to see a weakness in the England team. All they need to do now is break the mental barrier that going out at the quarter-final stage creates.”

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