Football: Kuyt sorry mate Ryan is missing.Byline: By NICK SMITH DIRK KUYT Dirk Kuyt, officially spelled Dirk Kuijt[1] ( (helpinfo)), (born July 22 1980, in Katwijk aan Zee) is a Dutch professional football player, who currently plays for English club Liverpool FC. has backed Liverpool and Holland team-mate Ryan Babel Ryan Guno Babel (born December 19, 1986 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch professional football player who currently plays for Liverpool. He is right footed and plays as a striker or a left winger. He has been a member of the Netherlands national football team since 2005. to be fit for the start of the season after the injury that wrecked his Euro 2008 dream. Babel Babel (bā`bəl) [Heb.,=confused], in the Bible, place where Noah's descendants (who spoke one language) tried to build a tower reaching up to heaven to make a name for themselves. is set to be sidelined for the best part of the next two months as he faces a race to recover from his ankle ligament ligament (lĭg`əmənt), strong band of white fibrous connective tissue that joins bones to other bones or to cartilage in the joint areas. The bundles of collagenous fibers that form ligaments tend to be pliable but not elastic. damage in time for the pre-season friendly programme. But that issue was clouded for Liverpool yesterday by Holland's Olympic coach declaring his intention to call Babel up for his under-23 side to compete at Beijing - which clashes with the Premier League opener on August 9 and could rule him out of the first fortnight fort·night n. A period of 14 days; two weeks. [Middle English fourtenight, alteration of fourtene night, fourteen nights : Old English f of the campaign. But wherever Babel is playing when he completes his recovery, Kuyt is hopeful the 21-year-old can put his misery behind him ahead of his second season at Anfield. "All I can say is that I want him to be back as quick as possible," said Kuyt. "I have left a message on his phone wishing him well. I just told him how sorry I was that he was missing the European finals and to get himself back as quick as he could." Kuyt, who has performed impressively for Holland in their Euro 20008 warm-up and is in line to take part in their opening group game against Italy in Berne on Monday, recalled the moment when Babel sustained the heart-breaking injury. He said: "It is a terrible blow for Ryan, and a real shock for all of us. The feeling in the camp was that it was quite a bad injury. And it happened without any contact with anyone else. He went down in training as he was running. "He switched from left to right with the ball and his leg just buckled under him. There was a loud noise. We felt at first it might have been broken. Everyone heard it." Even if Babel's ankle heals within five weeks he will still be playing catch-up in terms of pre-season preparation and can't yet commit to being ready for a major international tournament. Although clubs are powerless to prevent eligible players from joining up with their countries at the Olympics, Liverpool will be wary of the forward being rushed back. CAPTION(S): Ryan Babel and Dirk Kuyt |
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