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Despite his age and athleticism, David Sommeil suffered a heart attack this week while training with his club Valenciennes Wednesday. The defender collapsed during a training exercise and the team medical staff immediately began reparations as an ambulance was called. A defibbrilator was used on the defender, though team staff continue to insist that his heart did not stop. He was kept sedated while being transferred to a cardiac care center, where he is recuperating. Sommeil played 19 games for his team in the league last year. Updates are not currently available on his status.

The Altanta Braves have received good news in regards to pitcher Tom Glavine: his surgeries on his injured left elbow and arthroscopic procedure on his shoulder were completed successfully and his rehab program is progessing on schedule. The team expects him to make spring training. The 42-year old is on track to begin his throwing program early in 2009. Until his injury, he was 2-4 with a 5.54 ERA, starting in 13 games for the Braves.

Kansas City Royals are out two players this week to the 15-day disabled list. Pitcher Luke Hochevar was added Wednesday because of a recent rib injury. Mitch Maier, however, suffered multiple facial fractures whn he was hit by a pitch thrown by left hander Zach Jackson. The hurt occurred in the 5^th inning of the Royal’s game versus Cleveland on Wednesday. Thursday showed little improvement as the outfielder’s right eye had swollen shut, and his nose had yet to stop bleeding. Maier is currently batting .339 with 4 RBI’s in 19 games; he has no home runs. He was promoted to the Royals from triple A Omaha in July.

Sevilla will be without striker Arouna Kone for the upcoming season; unfortunately, the Ivory Coast player was injured while on international duty- sustaining a serious hurt to his left knee. The club’s friendly against Guinea in Paris resulted in a 2-1 win, but with the price of a torn cruciate ligament and meniscus of the 24-year old’s. August marks the anniversary of Kone’s having joined Sevilla from PSV Eindhoven, signing the contract for a club record fee of 12m. His first season was lacking in that he only contributed one goal to the team’s tally, out of the seven games played for the Primera division.

Bayern Munich made obvious during the first game in their 2008/2009 season how badly Luca Toni was missed. The Bundesliga Champions came out of the match up with a draw, an apparent disappointment to the German team so accustomed to winning. It’s their hope that he’ll be fully recovered from his calf muscle strain that’s kept him off the field in time for their meeting with Borussia Dortmund. Toni has scored 24 goals for them in his debut season. Also it’s been updated that Franck Ribery- winger from France- should be returning to training this week, back in action since his injury during Euro 2008.

Fiorentina will be without Adrian Mutu as the player recently was injured during practice. The striker dislocated his elbow while attempting an overhead kick during a training session with Romania. The 29-year old hurt himself just in time to miss his country’s friendly against Latvia, set to take place Wednesday. This marks a substancial loss for the club, as Mutu was last season’s top goal-maker. It is not dubious as to whether he will be able to participate in the UEFA Champions’ League third qualifying round, August 27^th at Slavia Prague. He is projected to be out of commission for two to three weeks.

Update on Giorgio Chiellini: Though Juvnetus will have to do without the 24-year old for up to two months, the team must be well relieved to hear that further testing as shown the injury as not nearly as exhaustive as first was feared. The hurt, sustained last weekend, had coaches and medical staff fearing he would be out for the season when he was carried off the field Sunday during a friendly game against Milan (Milan won 4-1). The knee injury, a severe twisting, will heal with rehab, said sources. 

Zenit St Petersburg may have to attack the UEFA Super Cup without Russian defender Aleksandr Anyukov on August 29^th. The 25-year old is struggling with a chest complaint, details of which are unknown. The right-back had already been dismissed from participating in the most recent league games, with substitutions Shinnik Yaroslayl and Terek Grozny appearing in 15 of Zenit’s 16 games. So far, no estimations are available as to when Anyukov may be cleared for play again.

The St Louis Cardinals will  be in need of a new reliever for the remainder of the season now that Jason Isringhausen will be most likely out of commission for the rest of the term. His elbow injury is the cited cause for general manager’s belief that the right-hander will stay on the disabled list for the rest of the year. The 35-year old is going through a tough stint in recent past, having already been twice demoted to reliever from closer position. He’s currently got stats of 1-5 and a 5.70 ERA, and has come through 12-in-19 times for save chances.

The NY Mets have recently received the poor news that pitcher Billy Wagner will be unable to play for an indeterminate amount of time. The All Star closer has experienced an increase in the swelling and pain in his elbow, putting him on the disabled list. Further tests confirmed the growth of inflammation via MRI testing, which is of great concern for the medical staff considering he’s used the last two weeks to rest his left side. It’ll become apparent just how damaging a turn of events the injury is as the Mets prep with shaky confidence to take on Florida and Philadelphia in the race for the division.

Torn ligaments will be keeping Jermaine Jones away from the Bundesliga fields for up to a month, after the midfielder was injured in his right ankle in Saturday’s game against Hannover. The turn of events will keep the German from participating in the UEFA Champions’ League third qualifying round second leg against Atletico Madrid. This loss marks the third significant injury to the Schalke ranks, following hurts to Orlando Engelaar and Jefferson Farfan.

Giorgio Chiellini may need to prepare himself for a long time on the disabled list, following a serious knee injury sustained during Juventus’s defeat of Milan with a final score of 4-1. The Italy defender crashed into striker Alberto Paloschi, resulting in the hurt to his left knee. At this time of writing, the details of the injury are not yet known, save that the 24-year old is scheduled to go in for additional test that may indicate whether rehab will be enough, or whether surgery will be necessary. It is dubious that Chiellini will be able to play for the return leg of Bianconeri’s UEFA Champions’ League third qualifying round. The club is set to play against Artmedia Petrzalka.

Though the Detroit Tigers just got reliever Todd Jones back from his stint on the disabled list, they’ll be losing him once more to the 15-day DL for his sore right shoulder. He had just two days off the injury, and gave up 5 unearned runs in the time frame. He’s missed the first half of August to the injury. Jones has managed 18 saves out of 21 opportunities, and has a 4.97 ERA. July 26^th marked the date he was switched from closer for the Detroit team, to reliever.

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