Will England miss David Beckham in the World Cup?

The World Cup 2010 is upon us, and teams are preparing for the fight of their lives to be crowned number one of the world.  Every team is going to expect hiccups along the way and the possible star player to get injured, but could it really be all that bad?

Let’s take England as the prime example.  Probably the best known football player in the world, maybe even the most popular sportsman in the world; David Beckham has fallen injured.  In a match with AC Milan his current team David Beckham tore one of his Achilles tendons in his leg.  This is a relatively serious injury and can take up to a year to completely heal.

One question that regularly is coming up in the British Papers is how the English will be able to cope without this star player.  Now I like to consider myself a little knowledgeable about some of the football players in the world and how the game works.  So I have some issue with these questions, mainly because of the player we are talking about.  Beckham is far from the best player in the world, no offence to him, but I think everyone will agree with me on this.  He does have some truly natural abilities like starting from set pieces that you could argue were unmatched by any other player around, but lets face it, he isn’t getting any younger now, and his football isn’t all that great.  I respect Beckham as a footballer and the role model he has become, at least he hasn’t turned out like other English stars (normally I wouldn’t mention names but – Ashley Cole, John Terry, and Wayne Bridge is a plank).

Back to the question at hand, will England miss Mr Beckham at the World Cup?  In a short answer “No they wont” at least they shouldn’t.  There are other players scrambling for this spot, and those that are just as good footballers if not better.  Although he had the set pieces down to a tee, Gerrard can take over from this, and the England team can place in Aaron Lennon, and after that Mr Walcott can step in.