Surprise Call Up For Wayne Rooney

Wayne Rooney

Accord­ing to the latest news reports, Manchester United centre for­ward Wayne Rooney is in line for a sur­prise call up for Team Great Bri­tain at this summer’s Olympics. The trig­ger happy marks­man is one of ten Manchester United play­ers in Great Bri­tain coach Stu­art Pearce’s pro­vi­sional 80-man squad for the Lon­don 2012 Olympics.

Reportedly, Manchester United gaf­fer Sir Alex Fer­guson has been informed that ten of his star play­ers are on standby for a spot in Stu­art Pearce’s final 18-man squad. Span­ish net cus­todian David de Gea and Mex­ico inter­na­tional front­man Javier Hernan­dez are already con­firmed for the Lon­don Olympics, while Ben Amos, Tom Clev­er­ley, Ryan Giggs, Phil Jones, Chris Smalling, Wayne Rooney, Danny Wel­beck and Ash­ley Young are among the actual play­ers that are still being con­sidered by the Team Great Bri­tain man­ager. Foot­ball Asso­ci­ation chiefs have pre­vi­ously indic­ated that play­ers tak­ing part at the UEFA European Cham­pi­on­ship 2012 would not be picked for the Lon­don 2012 Olympics.

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