Barcelona defender Gabriel Milito could see his career in jeopardy as he has not been allowed to run recover appropriately from his ACL tear back on May 5th.  The timetable for his recovery was scheduled at about six months, but things look like he will return probably in February.   Argentine national team doctor Homero [.

It ruled me out for five-plus months of play just four years ago. Now it's taken The Bison off the field for at least six.

Sky Sports obviously had some bum news over the weekend when it reported Michael Essien had suffered an ankle injury and would miss around four weeks. Now, the club's official website, reveals Essien, in fact, ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament and will miss the best part of a year.

Tonight I saw history repeated. I saw a real warrior knocked down. In the final USWNT game before departing for China and the Olympics, Abby Wambach broke her leg while trying to score her 100th goal for the USWNT.
She managed to force a smile and showed amazing inner strength and fortitude while being treated on the field.

Sexism can be simple and obvious (e.g. the FA ban on the women's game, or Man U's Christmas 'Rape' party). More often, it's subtle, complex, and really hard to tackle. Take, for example, the impact of poor medical understanding of women in general on women athletes in particular. We see this in the alarming frequency with which women athletes who play especially soccer and basketball suffer ACL

The anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, which is found in the knee, is very, very small. Yet, it can be so big at times. Especially for sports clubs. Like, say, for the New England Patriots or Chelsea. Today, athletes seem to be tearing their ACLs at an alarming rate. In the last few days, two of sport's most exciting athletes, Tom Brady [.

FC Dallas has announced the acquisition of forward Jeff Rowland, who signed a senior developmental deal with the club prior to Monday's roster freeze deadline.Rowland, 24, was selected second overall in the 2006 MLS Supplemental Draft by Real Salt Lake, but never played a game for them after tearing his right ACL in preseason.

Something to read while you dream of what might have been... Cristiano Ronaldo's alternative method for terrorizing fullbacks (Off the Post) What did Marta mean exactly? (WPS Offside) Dimitar Berbatov's injury, in his own words (Dirty Tackle) River and Chacarita fans overcome matchday transport problem (NBC Sports) South Africa scared of empty stadiums at Confederations Cup (Reuters) Could insoles really protect [.

I recently spent some time with Ron Prenger and Dr Russell Bond at Cox Health being introduced to a new community program they have launched to help prevent ACL injuries in female soccer players. The Glendale Soccer website first pointed to the issue last September when webmaster Bob Jordan linked to a story in USA Today about the PEP Program.

AFTER his recent exploits in the ACL and at last year's Asian Cup, a little guttered there'll be no Yasuhito Endo at the Olympic Games. But for those of you who have been following the exploits of Uzbekistan's Kuruvchi in the ACL due to the quality of the likes of Djeparov and Kapadze, the news that they've been linked with Samuel Eto'o sure will have grabbed your attention.

Sad, he's like the only guy I can stand on Chelsea.
He'd always be in my best XI.
But he torn his ACL playing for Ghana and now he's done for the year.
With all the offensive weapons the Blues have, they probably won't notice. But this could definitely ruin the balance on the team.

I recently spent some time with Ron Prenger and Dr Russell Bond at Cox Health being introduced to a new community program they have launched to help prevent ACL injuries in female soccer players. The Glendale Soccer website first pointed to the issue last September when webmaster Bob Jordan linked to a story in USA Today about the PEP Program developed by the Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Research Foundation.

The biggest surprise in this game might be that Lawndale's Kei Kamara actually found the net for Houston. The second biggest surprise: so did Houston's Nate Jaqua, the former goal-averse Galaxy forward.

The attendance without any Mexican teams involved in the final: just 9,232

*From the (edited) Galaxy press release:

reserve goalkeeper Charles Alamo and midfielder Michael Gavin each suffered serious injuries in Sunday night's reserve game in San Jose (a 1-0 loss) and will miss extended periods of time.

A very big truck from SAKAI.
The other codes said Aussies didn't care about the Asian Champions League.
Well here's evidence to show they do.
Adelaide United just 900 tickets left for tonights Quater Final against Kashima Antlers. What code wouldn't like a midweek sell-out!

I'd be curious to know more about this. ACL injuries happen but are they is 1500 women a large enough of a group for this sort of a study? After all, ACL's don't happen all that often, do they? And why didn't they have a picture of Heather Mitts?

US News And World Report:

The ACL is an important knee ligament.

Getafe will not be able to even use his one of their signings and the big Spanish teams will now have more reason as to not letting their players go when London 2012 rolls around. Argentine international Oscar Ustari will be out of action after he tore his ACL in the quarterfinal match against the Netherlands.

Adelaide United made history as they became the first Australian team to progress to the knock-out stages of the Asian Champions League. One word describes the performance of Adelaide:  Resolute. The performance of the players was nothing short of immense. Resolute & Immense While all the players put in notable performances, the stand-outs were undoubtedly the central [.

More changes at MLS's most boring/worst team.
Courtesy of this article on the Denver Post:
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It's been an emotional couple of weeks of Adelaide's Robbie Cornthwaite.
The club's foundation defender has not only found himself unwittingly dragged into a spitting storm but he's also been the target of abuse from his own supporters for scoring a horror own goal in the away leg of the AFC Champions League quarter-final against Kashima Antlers
But on Wednesday night in Adelaide, Cornthwaite banished all those demons with a tie-winning headed goal which secured a 2-1 aggregate win over the 10-time Japanese champions and a passage into the final four.