The good news for the Arsenal club captain Per Mertesacker is that the recovery from the knee injury that the World
Cup winning centre back picked up in the pre-season game against Lens is still going well.
Not exact matches
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centre backs ever — retired Ferdinand in top 3!
And because the
win over Hull means we now face a
cup quarter - final with Watford this weekend instead of the Premier League clash with West Brom, as well as there being an international break around the corner, Wenger only has one Premier League game to get through before Cazorla can come back into the
centre of midfield.
I've heard it all now... Yeah, we don't want that champions league, Spanish title, World
Cup and European championship
winning centre back that is regarded as one of the best in the world, he gets too many yellow cards!
He may have
won the 2006 World
Cup as Italy's captain, and would subsequently be voted for the Ballon d'Or in the same year, but surprisingly the
centre - back never
won the Champions League.
The timing of the announcement is arguably strange and slightly awkward, given that the two clubs at the
centre of the deal meet in the DFB
Cup final on May 21 and so Hummels will naturally have to remain professional and help his current employers
win another trophy.
Tomorrow they face bottom of the table Glyndwr 1s at Sugden Sports
Centre, they will hope to repeat the November
cup win against them and push for a good finish at the end of the season!
Yet the French team who
won the World
Cup had not one graduate of the
centre in it.
The north Londoners have been linked to World
Cup -
winning centre - back Mustafi, with the Daily Star reporting the club have already opened talks with the player's agent.
Centre - back Milos Veljkovic has signed for Werder Bremen on a contract until 2019, he
won the Under - 20 World
Cup with Serbia in...
In order to boost his squad the following summer, Mourinho moved to acquire the experienced Brazilian
centre - back Lucio from Bayern Munich and the 2002 World
Cup winner played a key role as Inter
won the treble in 2010.
Predominantly a
centre - back, he is a versatile performer and has been capped 14 times by Ivory Coast, with whom he helped
win the African Nations
Cup in 2015.
Two years later Hoeness — along with Beckenbauer and Breitner and other club - mates such as goalkeeper Sepp Maier,
centre back Georg Schwarzenbeck and marksman Gerd Muller — was
winning the European Champions
Cup with Bayern and the World
Cup itself with West Germany.
Rio Ferdinand sat out United's 3 - 2
win over Liverpool with illness, but the England defender started in United's 5 - 2 Carling
Cup victory over Scunthrope on Wednesday and is set to thwart Bolton's aerial advances, as without Ferdinand in defence the pairing of Davies and Elmander may have put their aerial prowess to good use, but Ferdinand is set to replace the inadequate Jonny Evans at
centre - half meaning there will be little room for the Bolton forwards to exploit.
The
centre - back, who has
won the FA Youth
Cup and Under - 21 Premier League since joining Chelsea as an Under - 13, will continue his development at the EBB Stadium.