{"id":5703,"date":"2012-05-05T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T11:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/?p=5703"},"modified":"2012-05-05T11:30:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T11:30:54","slug":"villa-given-time-to-prove-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/?p=5703","title":{"rendered":"Villa given time to prove fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Madrid:<\/strong> Spain&#8217;s football coach Vicente del Bosque said he will wait till the last minute for striker David Villa&#8217;s return from injury for the Euro 2012 Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bosque said Friday that he would not reveal his 23-man squad for Euro 2012 until May 27. He was originally expected to give the list four days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have an obligation and also a conviction that we should wait until the last moment in David&#8217;s case because he has been our most reputable goal scorer, the surest player and we should wait, of course,&#8221; Bosque was quoted as saying by Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Villa, who has scored 51 goals in 82 caps for the ational team, fractured his left tibia in Barcelona&#8217;s Club World Cup semifinal win over Al Sadd in Japan Dec 15, and is yet to play since the surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s bid to become the first team to defend their title after winning the World Cup begins with the Group C opener against Italy June 10. <strong>(IANS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Madrid: Spain&#8217;s football coach Vicente del Bosque said he will wait till the last minute for striker David Villa&#8217;s return from injury for the Euro 2012 Championship. \u00a0 Bosque said Friday that he would not reveal his 23-man squad for Euro 2012 until May 27. 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