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Beckham facing long road to recovery

ESPN staff
April 27, 2010
David Beckham's World Cup dreams were ended by injury © Getty Images
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David Beckham expects to sidelined until November, which would in all probability rule him out of the whole of the MLS season.

Beckham is recovering from a torn Achilles tendon he picked up playing while on loan for AC Milan and feels it will be three months before he is able to run again. There was hope that he could be back playing for LA Galaxy towards the end of the summer, but the 34-year-old's recovery is taking longer than expected.

"I won't be running for another three months so I'll be playing again in, probably, November," Beckham said. "This is an injury that is going to take time to heal. I'm only six weeks in after the surgery. I started therapy 10 days ago and just doing that every day.

"I kind of want to push it but with this kind of injury you can't. You just have to wait for it to heal and then move on.

"At the moment it's just getting the motion back into the ankle, the tendon, because obviously it's still repairing," he told mlssoccer.com. "I can't stretch too much, I have to wear a boot every day. If I haven't got a boot on, which I didn't today for a few interviews, I have to use crutches - it's one or the other at the moment. It's a pain. It's not easy moving around, but I have to protect it."

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