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Bayern winger Ribery back in training


Bayern Munich's French star Franck Ribery was on Tuesday declared fit to resume training after a summer spent battling tendonitis tendonitis /ten·do·ni·tis/ (ten?do-ni´tis) tendinitis.

ten·do·ni·tis
n.
Variant of tendinitis.
 in his knee.

The ex-Marseille player, who has been angling for a possible to move to Spain or England during the pre-season period, sat out the pre-season Audi Cup tournament involving Manchester United, AC Milan and Boca Juniors.

The 26-year-old is not likely to make Saturday's opening Bundesliga home match against Hoffenheim.

But the France international, who was Monday called into his country's squad for the World Cup qualifier qual·i·fi·er  
n.
1. One that qualifies, especially one that has or fulfills all appropriate qualifications, as for a position, office, or task.

2.
 with the Faroe Isles in Torshavn on August 12, will be ready to train on Wednesday, Andries Jonker, assistant to coach Louis van Gaal Aloysius ("Louis") Paulus Maria van Gaal (born August 8, 1951 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch football manager currently in charge of AZ Alkmaar in the Dutch Eredivisie. Career , told the club website.

"Franck and Ivica (Olic, Bayern's Croatian centre forward) are well on the way back," Jonker said.

"Monday and Tuesday they put in two intensive individual sessions and now we have to see how they digest those efforts."

Although Ribery is not match fit France coach Raymond Domenech Raymond Domenech (born January 24, 1952 in Lyon) is a former French football player and the current manager of the French national team. He is of partly Southern Catalan descent. His father fled Spain during the rule of Francisco Franco.  suggested he might be "able to playa playa
 or pan or flat or dry lake

Flat-bottomed depression that is periodically covered by water. Playas occur in interior desert basins and adjacent to coasts in arid and semiarid regions.
 bit of the match if necessary" against the Faroes.
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