http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Riba-ry-et-a-la-peur-des-piqa-resa/473270

"Frank is the property of a club where every injury is treated systematically with injections.  He must have had 30 injections during the season.  At some point, you can't take it anymore.  We weren't going to do it."

Regarding the German Cup Final:  "He started and then left the game.  He played a match that he should never have played."

"He chained several injuries during the season.  Remember that he had to get surgery for a haematoma caused by the medical treatment at his club."

Wow.  Ripping Bayern medical staff apart.  If it's true, he's right.  Direct painkilling injections are EXTREMELY dangerous and have long term health effects if abused.

He isn't ripping anyone apart. He's just whining.

must be a reflex of how they were doping in the 60s

yea a random frenchman dissing one of the most reputable doctors in sports.... groundbreaking. the man treats CR7, Usain Bolt, Andy Murray, Stevie G and god damn Bono - that must all be based on his magic injections.

Usain Bolt is probably not the best posterchild for anti-doping  It's a statistical impossibility to have so many top sprinters from such a small pool as Jamaica.  Everyone dopes in sprinting anyhow... it's like cycling.

And Bono is a reference now?  

Is there Medical Chief not Dr. Hanz Wohlfahrt? Because if it is he is taking on a medical kraken here with such a challenge.

I mean we studied his methods in university as such was his expertise.

He doesn't necessarily inject cortizone from what i'm reading on google... but he's into injecting pretty much everything. Apparently, he even injected honey into an injury.

He's very controversial apparently. A lot of very known people swear by him.... many don't.

'from what I'm reading on google'?

lol

Well, from what I read, Dr.Müller-Wohlfahrt is using quite some alternative stuff to better activate the body's self-healing capabilities. AFAIK some of it is not fully accepted by the school medicine, but the stuff is obviously not on the doping list (IIRC there were even investigations that didn't yield any results as some medics didn't even really understood what exactly he intends to achieve with certain substances). But even if he only works via placebo effect, it seems that he is pretty successful nonetheless. ^^

Hapless_Hans wrote:'from what I'm reading on google'?

lol

Sure. I research the name and then read articles written about him. I'm not reading wiki lol. There's plenty of controversy surrounding this guy and plenty to read about it.

http://www.espnfc.com/france/story/1876180/france-doctor-says-bayern-munich-mishandled-franck-ribery-injury

"Franck belongs to a club where for all pathological treatments -- twisted ankles, bruising, muscle pains, contractions, tears -- there are injections," Le Gall said. "There are 10 per pathology (injury), or 20, 25, 40 per year, or more. So there comes a time when, well ... [Ribery] has had enough of injections. If for a moment we thought it could be solved that way, we didn't do it, because he's scared of injections."

Are you already setting up excuses for why France will inevitably choke, sporty?

lol... who is your team or did you just adopt the best team to follow?

sportsczy wrote:lol...  who is your team or did you just adopt the best team to follow?    

I'm German. I'm also bandwaggoning Spain because they are basically Barca + Ramos. If Argentina win it's also okay because Messi will be lifting his 5th or 6th or 7th Ballon d'Or - shit, I forgot how many Ballon d'Ors he has. And if Brazil win Nerman's marketability will make Beckham blush, which again is positive for Barca.

As you can see, basically, yes, I win no matter what. You didn't answer my question though.

A German who bandwagons Spain... OK

No excuses. I just think it's a shame that clubs don't pay attention to players more during WC years. They don't care.

And France will do just fine, Ribery or no Ribery.