{"id":10086,"date":"2010-06-15T09:01:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T13:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=10086"},"modified":"2010-06-15T09:01:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T13:01:34","slug":"world-cup-2010-didier-drogba-cleared-to-wear-arm-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=10086","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2010: Didier Drogba cleared to wear arm cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ivory Coast&#8217;s Didier Drogba has been given clearance to wear a protective cast on his broken right arm in Tuesday&#8217;s game against Portugal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Football&#8217;s world governing body Fifa made the decision prior to the first Group G match of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chelsea striker&#8217;s involvement in South Africa had been in doubt after suffering the injury in a friendly against Japan on 4 June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fifa said that Tuesday&#8217;s referee Jorge Larrionda had permitted the cast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The organisation&#8217;s head of media Nicolas Maingot added: &#8220;The cast has been seen by the Portuguese delegation at Monday&#8217;s match co-ordination meeting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Everybody knows what Drogba is for Chelsea and for us &#8211; he&#8217;s a great player,&#8221; said Ivory Coast coach Sven-Goran Eriksson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added: &#8220;We have a lot of good players who are strong and have good technique.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We&#8217;re in a difficult group with Portugal, Brazil and North Korea, but the boys are working very hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 32-year-old required surgery after fracturing his arm in Sion, Switzerland, in a collision with Japan defender Marcus Tulio Tanaka &#8211; three minutes after the forward had opened the scoring with a 13th-minute deflected free-kick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afterwards, Eriksson refused to blame Tanaka for the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It was unlucky,&#8221; the 62-year-old former England boss said at the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t bad or stupid. 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