Ghana midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng
will start training with his German side Schalke today (Monday) after
recovering from the injury, GHANAsoccernet.com can exclusively reveal.
The 26-year-old hoping that he will be
fit enough to face English side Chelsea in the UEFA Champions League tomorrow
as he is the club’s key player in continental competition.
Boateng missed Schalke’s 3-2 win over
Eintracht Braunschweig on Saturday because of a knee injury, ending suspicion
that he faked injury to avoid the crucial World Cup playoff win over Egypt in
Kumasi last week.
He also missed Sunday’s training session
at the Gelsenkirchen but the utility player has now recovered from the setback
and he is ready to start training today.
“Kevin will be back on board on Monday,”
Schalke sporting director Horst Heldt said.
Coach Jens Keller of the Bundesliga side
Schalke added that his injured two regulars Kevin-Prince Boateng and Timo
Hildebrand are looking very fit for the Chelsea challenge.
“With Timo he looks very good, with
Kevin also good,” Keller said after the 3-2 win at Eintracht Braunschweig
Gelsenkirchen.
Boateng was not even part of the
travelling party to the Eintracht-Stadion for the 3-2 victory in Saturday’s
German Bundesliga match.
This shows that he has not recovered
from the knee injury that kept him out of the Black Stars’ 6-1 win over Egypt
on Tuesday.
The midfielder sustained the injury just
two days before he was supposed to have joined the Black Stars to prepare for
the Egypt match.
The timing of the injury prompted fears
that he had faked the setback to avoid the tough match while preserving his hopes
of playing at the 2014 World Cup which guarantees huge publicity.
This revelation puts an end to the
suspicion that he is fooling Ghanaians to enable him play at the World Cup
which has got a higher profile.
Boateng has been accused of picking and
choosing which matches he wants to play for Ghana and avoids tough qualifying
matches in Africa.
But the midfielder has genuine knee
problems which have seen him undergo surgeries for about SIX TIMES on the
troublesome left knee.
The Schalke midfielder suffered a knee
injury while playing for the German club during a league match two weeks ago.
Black Stars coach Kwesi Appiah was
hoping further tests on the left knee problem could clear Boateng to play for
Ghana in the match.
But the tests in Germany revealed that
Boateng must undergo treatment for the injury which meant he will not be
available for the match against Egypt.
Culled from Ghanasoccernet
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