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Eto`o `unfit` for Liverpool game (21.02.2007)
Three-time African Player of the Year Samuel Eto`o has been left out of the Barcelona squad for their last 16 Champions League first leg match against Liverpool on Wednesday.
The Catalan club said that last season`s Spanish first division top scorer would miss the clash because he was still not 100 per cent fit.
"Eto`o and Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard talked this evening and decided together that it would be better not force his recovery," a Barcelona spokesperson said.
Rijkaard had earlier on Tuesday suggested that Eto`o would be ready to play his part in the Catalan club`s 18-man squad that will face the men from Merseyside.
"Psychologically he`s fine and physically he`s getting better all the time," commented Rijkaard at a press conference before Barcelona`s final
training session in preparation for game.
The Cameroon striker`s refusal to take the field for the Spanish league leaders against Racing Santander 10 days ago led to Rijkaard, and also Barcelona`s World Player of the Year Ronaldindo, to question his commitment to the club.
The trio subsequently smoothed over the public dispute but Eto`o himself then requested not be part of the squad that lost 2-1 at Valencia on Sunday.
The player has only played 10 minutes of competitive football, just over two weeks ago after coming on as a late substitute at Osasuna, since suffering a right knee injury in the Champions League group stages against Werder Bremen last September.
Eto`o was subsequently out of action for more than four months until he returned to full training on 1 February.
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