Barcelona ask Toure and Eto'o to skip African Nations Cup

• zocoss

  17 Oct 07, 10:31

  
  
  MADRID, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Barcelona have asked Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o and Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure not to represent their countries at the African Nations Cup in Ghana in January.
  
  "I don't know if they'll go and I hope they don't but we can't force them," Barca sports director Txiki Begiristain told Spanish radio station RAC1. "For Eto'o it would be a strange year. Injury, recovery and then international duty. I asked Toure before we signed him. "Ronaldinho did not go to the Copa America (in June) and it was a brave decision. But I understand how important they are for their countries."
  
  Eto'o, the three-times African Player of the Year, has been sidelined since the beginning of September after undergoing surgery on a thigh injury. Toure, who is also out with a thigh injury, joined Barca from Monaco in June.
  
  Ronaldinho, along with AC Milan's Kaka, both asked to be left out of Dunga's Brazil squad for the Copa America in Venezuela in June, saying they needed a break from playing.
  
  The African Nations Cup runs from Jan. 20 to Feb. 10.
  
• Deunamist

  17 Oct 07, 10:42

  wah a bit ridiculous for the club to demand leh
  
  they should leave it to the player.
• turbo_drift

  17 Oct 07, 17:07

  oh my...
• gunner77

  19 Oct 07, 01:34

  ZZZ....
  where can like tat ?
• 4getmenot

  19 Oct 07, 14:50

  dun know bout chelsea side though, drogba wud probably enjoy better playing for his country than for chelsea at the current moment..
• ronaldog

  19 Oct 07, 18:42

  Originally posted by 4getmenot:

  dun know bout chelsea side though, drogba wud probably enjoy better playing for his country than for chelsea at the current moment..

  Everyone's talking about Barca players, U're talkin bout Chelsea??!!
  
  Why not talk about yr Mom, Sister & yr B!tch instead?
• 4getmenot

  20 Oct 07, 12:10

  Originally posted by ronaldog:

  Everyone's talking about Barca players, U're talkin bout Chelsea??!!
  
  Why not talk about yr Mom, Sister & yr B!tch instead?

  well its kinda related in a way isn;t it? Drogba wud also be enlisted to play in the African Nations Cup.. so if barcel can request its players, it come as no surprise that even grant might even ask the same sort of Drogba since they are lacking firepower upfront in Schev....
  
  of course i wouldn;t expect a dog to understand...
  
  
• stellazio

  20 Oct 07, 17:05

  I think Ivory Coast got a good chance of winning leh.