Eto'o resumes training at Barcelona after injury
November 26, 2007 - 0:0
MADRID (AFP) -- Barcelona's Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o resumed team training Sunday after three months out injured, the club announced.
""The great news this Sunday has a name -- that of Samuel Eto'o, who is training again with the team after three months injured,"" the club said on its website (www.fcbarcelona.com).The prolific Cameroon forward, who was the Spanish first division's top scorer two seasons ago, has only played in one league game this season before rupturing a tendon in a friendly match with Inter Milan in late August.
It is the second long-term injury that the 26-year-old former African Player of the Year has suffered since moving to Barcelona three seasons ago.
Last season, Eto'o was out for four months with a knee injury and some pundits believe his absence was instrumental in Barca having to relinquish the La Liga title they had won for the previous two years.
He was also a goalscorer in Barca's 2-1 win over Arsenal in the 2006 European Champions League final. In Eto'o's absence, Argentine striker Lionel Messi has taken over the role of being Barca's principal goal getter.
Eto'o was unveiled on Friday as the face of the 2010 World Cup.
An image of the former African Player of the Year about to head a football, his face and neck superimposed on a map of Africa, will form the centerpiece of the publicity campaign before the tournament kicks off in South Africa on June 11, 2010.