Columbia's Radamel Falcao will miss the World Cup in Brazil due to an injury, Reuters reported Tuesday. The forward hasn't recovered from a knee injury he got in January. Other star players we won't see at the World Cup in Brazil in this photo gallery by ITAR-TASS.
Star players to miss FIFA World Cup in Brazil
Star players we won't see at the World Cup in Brazil in this photo gallery by ITAR-TASS
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Though Columbia did qualify for the World Cup, Radamel Falcao will miss the championship due to an injury
© EPA/Juan Ignacio Roncoroni Jesus Navas won't be able to help the Spanish national team at the World Cup because of an injury
© EPA/PETER POWELL Spain wll also have to do without Thiago Alcantara, who will miss the World Cup due to an injury
© EPA/ATEF SAFADI Spanish goalkeeper Victor Valdes is also injured
© EPA/ALEJANDRO GARCIA England's Theo Walcott won't be able to help his national team either
© EPA/ANDY RAIN Zlatan Ibrahhimovic will miss the World Cup, as his national team, Sweden, lost to Portugal and failed to qualify for the event
© EPA/ERIK MARTENSSON Real Madrid's Gareth Bale plays for the Wales national team, which hasn't qualified for the World Cup this year
© EPA/JOSE SENA GOULAO Petr Cech's national team didn't make it to butting matches
© EPA/AIDAN CRAWLET Rafael van der Vaart won't be able to help the Netherlands due to a knee injury
© EPA/KOEN VAN WEEL Robert Lewandowski is going to miss the World Cup togethter with Poland's national team
© EPA/BERND THISSEN Neither will we be able too watch Slovakia's Martin Skrtel
© EPA/DANIEL DAL ZENNARO Germany's Ilkay Gundogan has a serious knee injury, which made his miss almost the whole season. Naturally, he misses the World Cup
© EPA/FREDRIK VON ERICHSEN Russia's team captain Roman Shirokov will also miss the World Cup due to an injury. Shirokov is to undergo surgery on June 9
© ITAR-TASS/Alexander Nikolayev Germany's Marco Reus was injured during the international friendly soccer match between Germany and Armenia. The midfielder won't be able to help his team in Brazil
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