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Milan Baros: Foot injury.
Aston Villa striker Milan Baros is still suffering from a foot injury and is uncertain when he will be available to play for the Czech Republic in the World Cup.

Baros has not trained since sustaining the injury in a friendly against Trinidad and Tobago on June 3. 'The treatment has not been going in the way we had planned,' team press officer Lukas Fousek said.

Baros tried to train after taking pain-killing injections, but only lasted 30 minutes. 'It was okay for a while, but than I had to stop,' Baros said. 'When I make a faster movement, it hurts.' [+]

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