Barcelona have announced that striker David Villa has underwent successful surgery, on his broken left leg on Monday and doctors said it would take him four to five months to recover. Quick question on that. Has any club every announced unsuccessful surgery?

"The surgery went fantastically well," Barca doctor Ricard Pruna said.

Spain and Barcelona striker David Villa's season has come to a premature end after fracturing his Tibia in his side's 4-0 win over Al Saad in the FIFA World Club Championships yesterday.

The striker will now be out for 5 months and fears are starting to emerge in the Spanish national side as to whether the 30 year old will recover in time for the Euro 2012 tournament.

Barcelona have suffered a huge blow on the injury front as striker David Villa fractured his tibia in their 4-0 World Club Cup semi-final win against Al Sadd. After being dropped to the bench for Saturday's 3-1 El Clasico victory against Real Madrid, Villa started alongside Lionel Messi and Pedro in a three-man attack against [.

It is a tournament that receives much criticism given its awkward timing and relative unimportance, but I guess the World Club Championship has lost a whole heap more supporters following Barcelona's game with Al-Sadd.
Not that is was anything to do with Barca's Qatari opponents, who worked diligently to try and contain the European Champions.

David Villa fractured his left tibia shortly before half-time in the Fifa Club World Cup semi-final against Al Sadd in Yokohama, Japan today.

Villa, who had been linked with a move to away from the Nou Camp in January, was carried off on a stretcher after appearing to land awkwardly 39 minutes into a game Barcelona were winning 1-0.

Villa removed from pitch following leg injury (Photo: AP Photo)

Horrible news out of Japan this morning where FC Barcelona defeated Al-Sadd 0-4 in the Club World Cup semi-final and will move on to play Santos in the final.

In the 36th minute of the first half David Villa was injured running down a through ball and when he tried to control the pass twisted is left leg and fell to the ground.

Not the sight we would have wanted to greet you with on this fine footballing day. Sigh. Image: AP Photo/ Shizuo Kambayashi.

For those of you who haven't heard, David Villa fractured his tibia this morning in Barcelona's FIFA Club World Cup game vs. Al-Sadd. Early reports state the striker will probably be out of the game for six months.

By Chris Wright

Barcelona have just whupped Al Sadd 4-0 in the second Club World Cup semi-final in Yokohama (Adriano, Adriano, Keita and Maxwell if you're interested we'll try and track down some highlights later), but the Japanese jolly has been soured somewhat by a nasty injury to David Villa, who split his tibia in twain five minutes before half-time.

COLOMBIA vs BOLIVIA
Con autoridad Colombia es primer lugar de grupo y espera rival para el sábado en Córdoba. Dos goles de Falcao en la primera parte fueron suficientes para resolver el partido y la clasificación de los colombianos ante, otra vez, una Bolivia tibia y sin definición, ni siquiera con la fuerza y determinación del partido inicial ante el local Argentina.

So now that we're in our first MLS weekend post-Zakuani (that crack still haunts my dreams), people are going all crazy on us. Seattle fans are leading the charge. MLS is joining in. I'm not going to say a little anger isn't justified because, well, it looks here like Brian Mullan literally punched his boot clean through poor Stevie's tibia.

The Seattle Sounders will hand out No. 11 placards prior to Saturday's game against Toronto FC and are asking fans to hold them up at the 11:00 mark as a tribute to Steve Zakuani, who had his leg broken by a Brian Mullan tackle during Friday's game. The idea for the tribute seems to have risen organically as Sounders fans started pushing the plan on Twitter, which eventually got the ear of part owner Drew Carey.

The Seattle Sounders might have defeated defending MLS Cup Champions, Colorado Rapids, in Commerce City, Colorado last night, but it's clear the victory feels somewhat hollow to the Sounders and their fans since one of their young stars, Steve Zakuani, will most likely be out the rest of the season after breaking his fibula and tibia.

Steve Zakuani is going to miss next week's game after suffering an absolutely horrific break of his fibula and tibia following a stupid and reckless tackle by Brian Mullan. Zakuani is going to miss the match after that. In all likelihood, he's going to miss a bunch more after that too. Right now, it seems callous to even talk about the result, a not-entirely-insignificant 1-0 win over the Colorado Rapids.

I have a feeling that El Hadji Diouf has never read the book How To Win Friends And Influence People. If he had, perhaps the Blackburn striker wouldn't have behaved the way he did during Saturday's FA Cup game against Queens Park Rangers (QPR) where he stood over QPR's Jamie Mackie, who had just broken his leg in a tackle, and allegedly said "F*** u and f*** your leg.

Ireland and Leicester left-back Greg Cunningham, on loan from Manchester City, suffered a broken leg after in his side's 1-0 victory over Hull City this Saturday.
Galway born Cunningham suffered the break as a result of Liam Rosenior's late tackle on 62 minutes, which earnt him a red card.