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The football world cup this year was supposed to one of the most exciting ever with stars like Rooney, Torres and Messi bracing the pitch. But they have been disappointing so far. Wayne Rooney will not be playing a part in the World Cup after England were trashed 4-1 by Germany. The Manchester United front man, one of the most talented players in England failed to score even once in South Africa.

Spain have done well in the World Cup so far but it is a different story for Fernando Torres who has also not scored yet. He doesn’t look fit either and many football pundits say Fernando Llorente should start for Spain.

A lot was also expected from Barcelona winger Lionel Messi in this tournament but he too has failed to bag any goals so far. The top scorers so far in this World Cup are David Villa and Gonzalo Higuain who have both scored four goals each. Higuain opened his scoring account with the famous hat trick over South Korea. Villa, on the other hand, has been scoring consistently. Both these players are now the hot favorites to win the Golden Boot award, a prize given to the player who scores the most goals.

Chelsea has confirmed that they have released Michael Ballack and Joe Cole. Both these players played under Jose Mourinho when he was the manager at Chelsea. The Portuguese has now moved to Spanish giants Real Madrid and now is looking to sign his ex-players back. Ballack is currently nursing an angle injury and hence he will be not a part of the German squad flying to South Africa for the world cup.

Ballack says that he wants to play for two more years at the top level before finally hanging his boots. The German international was brought to Chelsea by Jose Mourinho and he was one of the costliest players at the Stamford Bridge at that time. Joe Cole, on the other hand couldn’t come to an agreement with Chelsea regarding his wages and hence opted to leave the club. The England front man now intends to use the World Cup to showcase his skills and he thinks his performances will attract new offers.

Jose Mourinho will have a tough time placing the two ex-Chelsea players on his Real Madrid line up because there are already good players in that position at the Bernabeu. Maybe he will sell some Real Madrid players in order to make place for the new guys.

Yuvraj Singh Indian Batsman has been excluded from Champions Trophy after a finger fracture during the practice of fielding session in Johannesburg. He was injured just three days left before the teams opening match played against Pakistan.

Indian cricket board declared in a statement that Yuvraj singh would be out of the game for another six weeks. Virat Kohli will substitute Yuvraj in the tournament held in South Africa. India will plays against Pakistan on Saturday and later with Australia and West Indies. In one-day international, he has scored 7,098 runs and caught 76 wickets. India is the much loved among the eight-team tournament but the team by now has lost  two leading players opening batsman Virender Sehwag and pace bowler Zaheer Khan through injury however opener Gautam Gambhir has groin strain and is under fitness  worry.

Champions Trophy 2009 held to begin from the 22 September to 5 October at Wanderers Stadium and Centurion Park in Johannesberg in South Africa. Two teams from two group of four will form the semi finals with the final played on 5 October.

Last year tournament was supposed to be happen in Pakistan but was postponed until October 2009 due to security concerns after the attack on Sri Lankan teams. Group A consists of Australia, India, Pakistan and West Indies Group B consists of England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and New Zealand. Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen stars of England team will not play for ICC Champions. Australia defeated England in the recent 50 over series and England became the first team to lose a series by 7-0. After the beginning of Twenty20, the popularity of 50 over game has declined.

Athletics chief Leonard Chuene need to be dismissed for renouncing the facts of athlete Caster Semanya gender tests. He confessed on Saturday that he overlooked the opinion to pull out athlete Semanya from challenging the IAAF Championships in Berlin and deprived of the fact of sex test done on her before the world title won of 800m.

The ministry of sports was stunned to here the disclose lie and  ordered to sack him from his current job designation said Gert Oosthuizen, he added saying if they fail to do so then they run the risk of being led by a liar. This intimate fact of gender test was revealed to the press. Gert added saying the department had asked for the report twice before and after the game but did not get anything as per the request. Chuene intension was just to protect her privacy and he apologized for his measures. However, his confusion is not acceptable the statement declares that he lied not only to the ministry but also to the entire country. The confident denial of knowledge of test added up uninterrupted harm of her rights and dignity by both local and international media. Semanya has an interex status of revealing both female and male individuality as per their understandings of tests done.

Australia reclaimed topped one day ranking after their 111 runs victory against England in Nottingham, Australia in lead of 6-0 in seven match series must win the final match to enter the Champion Trophy. The main contribution for sixth one-day match for Australia is from wicketkeeper Tim Paine.

Tim Paine made 111 runs out of 148 balls with the total score of 296-8 went ahead of current world leaders South Africa in ODI and returned to top world ranking. Miserable defeat of England just leaves one defeat away to 7-0 series somewhat that never happened in international series of cricket. Captain Strauss was hurt by his team poor performance and cannot defend his team when few days remained to begin ICC Champions Trophy in South Africa. He described his team batting as a horror show and a poor performance.

Caster Semenya Athletics star of South Africa was forced to under go a gender test after she won the 800m world title during the recent World Championships. South African government has wedged a complaint on behalf of world champion and the complaint deals with handling of her issues.

Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya South Africa’s minister for women children and people with disabilities was launched a complaint with United Nations. IAAF insisted for the gender test in the midst of fear that she might be able to run as a woman. Later on IAAF insisted with South African to pull out her from their team of Germany, in spite of this SA athletics federation was firm and claimed Caster has a female. ASA has issued a new statement and enquiry and their first preference is to ensure that Caster Semenya’s professional career is secure. Presently they are concentrating to continue with her participation in athletics. Sebastian Coe, chairperson of London Organizing committee for 2012 Olympic games foremost plan is to check out  how many athletes are in the state as Semanya and are asked to stand out from participating. He ensured saying we would never allow this to happen ever again. Later on Coe will discuss this issue with other officials of IAAF and their suggestions will be displayed in the next meeting in November with IAAF council.

Tri Nations, which includes Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, has invited Argentina to join them in extended southern hemisphere rugby union championship for 2012. Last world cup Pumas ranked third and in world ranked sixth. Pumas have their best players available for the tournament.

Argentina Rugby President Porfirio Carreras stated it as significant news whereas on the other hand retired World Cup captain Agustin Pichot uttered he was delightful. Invitee is provisional and needs to get sanction by Tri- Nations leading body SANZAR’s broadcasters. Amongst the setting to meet are that the Pumas will provide the best players and UAR will make acceptable financial wrap up. Andy Marinos uttered saying to include Pumas join with three top ranked international teams in world rugby will be exciting for fans, players, sponsors, and broadcasters across four countries and beyond. Since they finished third at 2007 World Cup Pumas were always pushing themselves in addition to add up in southern hemisphere major tournament. Argentina president urged thanks to board and everyone for their support and stated saying they are looking forward working with Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa to obtain a place in best competition in world Rugby held in 2012.