Chris Smalling Is Out With Injury

Chris Smalling

Accord­ing to the the latest med­ical reports, Manchester United cent­ral defender Chris Smalling is side­lined with a groin injury. The Eng­land inter­na­tional suffered the injury dur­ing the 2–0 vic­tory over Swansea City at Old Traf­ford last week­end and the 22-year-old will now miss out on the 2012 European Cham­pi­on­ships this sum­mer.

Lon­doner Chris Smalling star­ted with Maid­stone United where his ini­tial taste of first team foot­ball came in a 4–1 loss to Ton­bridge Angels in the Kent Senior Cup in April 2007. As things even­tu­ally turned out, the much wanted stop­per even­tu­ally decided to team up with Premier League side Ful­ham at the begin­ning of the 2008-09 cam­paign. After mak­ing just 13 league appear­ances under the lead­er­ship and guid­ance of Craven Cot­tage boss Roy Hodg­son, the highly prom­ising youth was signed by Manchester United man­ager Sir Alex Fer­guson for a trans­fer fee believed to be some­where in the region of £8 mil­lion mid­way through the 2009-10 sea­son. Smalling went on to make his league debut for the red shirts when he entered the field as a late second half sub­sti­tute in the 3–0 suc­cess against West Ham United at Old Traf­ford in August 2010 and by the end of the 2010-11 cam­paign, he had appeared in enough matches to pick up an Eng­lish Premier League win­ners’ medal. A whole­hearted and ver­sat­ile per­former, Chris Smalling made his full inter­na­tional debut for Eng­land in the con­vin­cing 3–0 tri­umph against Bul­garia at the Vasil Levski in Sofia back in Septem­ber 2011 and has so far amassed three senior caps for his country.

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