Oviedo gets World Cup boost

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Specialist feels he will be fit in time

Bryan Oviedo's remarkably quick recovery from a double-leg break in January has him on course to play for Costa Rica in the World Cup Finals this summer.

That is the assessment of a specialist in London this week who feels that the fullback could be ready to play in Brazil just five months after suffering the horrific injury at Stevenage.

The 23 year-old had a rod inserted in his tibia on the Monday after the FA Cup Fourth Round tie and was quickly on the road of rehabilitation, tweeting video of himself on an exercise bike just three weeks after undergoing the surgery.

Roberto Martinez explained today that before flying back to his native Costa Rica, Oviedo saw an independent specialist in London who says his prospects for fulfilling his World Cup dream are good.

"Bryan is well ahead in his recovery time," Martinez is quoted in The Guardian. "We have sent him back to Costa Rica because we are working with the national team who want to assess him.

"He saw an independent specialist in London before he went away and the specialist feels he can make the World Cup. That would be an incredible statement given he suffered the injury six weeks ago at Stevenage."

The club will work with the Costa Rican national team over the next fortnight to assess and track his progress and Martinez stresses that Everton won't stand in his way if he is ready in time to play in Brazil.

"The World Cup is an incredible opportunity for him so that is why we are working together with the national team to try to get him fully fit," Martinez continued.

"It would be phenomenal for him personally if he was to make it. He has been very positive from the beginning.

"Physically he is a machine, so I would have no concerns over that. He's a quick healer but he's also got that positive mentality and he's got that goal of getting to the World Cup. He is a great example for anyone."

"We know for sure that he's going to be fit for pre-season but if we can get him fit for the World Cup it would be incredible. For a player to go through an injury like that and make a World Cup would mean so much. We want that to happen, I certainly wouldn't stand in the way. He deserves it to happen. We would get a better player back at Everton if Bryan has played in the World Cup.

"There is no reason for us to feel it is a risk him going the World Cup but we just hope that Costa Rica can use him, otherwise it would be pointless them taking him."

 

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Andrew Hawes
1 Posted 13/03/2014 at 22:47:42
I'm not so sure it will do his Everton career a lot of good rushing back from an injury like that?

Would prefer him to rehabilitate properly and do a full pre-season!!

Mike Gaynes
2 Posted 13/03/2014 at 23:13:37
Outstanding!!!

Bravo, Bryan, and best of luck. We're proud of ya!

Dave Williams
3 Posted 13/03/2014 at 23:15:45
We have missed him more than anyone as he brought such skill,pace and energy to the team. Better than Baines this season and such a likeable bloke too - go Bryan!!
Peter Anthony
4 Posted 13/03/2014 at 23:17:04
Get 100% right Bryan! Play in World Cup if you can give your best, for the best of your own self, your country and your club. Take no risks if not 100% but if you are, break a leg (so to speak, terrible pun, but put on a great show!) I look forward to you and Baines playing against each other in the group game. Best of luck Oviedo Baby.
James Martin
5 Posted 14/03/2014 at 00:50:56
Baines is described as the best left back in the league but Oviedo does everything apart from set pieces better. No coincidence at all that our best form was with him in the team.
Darryl Ritchie
6 Posted 14/03/2014 at 01:04:36
As I've said before: simply amazing!!!
Sean Kelly
7 Posted 14/03/2014 at 01:09:57
Fantastic news... I hope it works out for him and us. I hope some of our eternal sick notes take a look at him and get their fingers out.
Paul Ferry
8 Posted 14/03/2014 at 02:02:12
Lovely stuff, Bryan, might even have you back for the last old lady game along with the Monaco fella. More importantly, do me a favour will you mate, and do an Old Trafford on Eeengaurland in Brazil. I would love to see Costa Rica beat Ennngeerrland or should I say Lahndan/Accrington Stanley/Darlington/Notts Forest in the global cup.

"Free kick to Costa Rico, Ovideo placing the ball, he plays for Everton you know, oh my word, what a goal, Hart was like a paralyzed aardvark, Oviedo, my word, Ovideo does it again inside 10 minutes, Ennggeerrland 0 Costa Rica 2, you couldn't write this stuff, it's Juan of the Rovers but in real life."

God I hope so.

Ciaran Duff
9 Posted 14/03/2014 at 03:41:57
Vamos Ticos.
Colin Metcalfe
10 Posted 14/03/2014 at 05:35:28
Absolutely incredible!! Don't think anyone gave him a hope in hell of playing in the World Cup! Truly outstanding, well done, Bryan!!
Steve Guy
11 Posted 14/03/2014 at 07:05:07
Paul presume you aren't English ? Can't believe anyone who is would want to see us get beat in the World Cup
Andy Meighan
12 Posted 14/03/2014 at 07:50:06
Great news. He’s een sorely missed and, as James said, no coincidence our form has dipped since he’s been out. It will be great to see him score against the overpaid prima donnas in the World Cup like to see creased heads miserable gob if that happened.
Scott Jones
13 Posted 14/03/2014 at 08:25:35
Infectious personality and a great role-model.

Love his quote... "You can either throw the towl in, or use it to wipe the sweat from your brow."

Get well soon, Bryan.

David McKitt
14 Posted 14/03/2014 at 08:47:38
Delighted for him if he makes it to the World Cup. I follow him on FB and twitter and was just amazed how positive he was straight after the leg break. If anyone deserves to go to the World Cup, it's Oviedo baby.
Kevin Day
15 Posted 14/03/2014 at 11:38:51
Absolutely amazing, truly, some people deserve good things to happen to them in life, and Bryan Oviedo is one of them.
Kevin Jones
16 Posted 14/03/2014 at 12:15:45
Great to see Bryan doing so well. My Grandson (Lewis) met him in a fast-food place in Town just before Chrimbo. He was in the queue behind Bryan and got chatting, posed for photos signed an autograph or two and had a wife to die for. Then he let Lewis and his mates get a table before him and his family, what a guy, absolute gent.

As for you, Paul Ferry, words fail me, I would never ever want any England team to get beat whether it's Football, Cricket, Rugby or underwater tiddlywinks.

Even if Gerrard or Sturridge score the winner in the final, I'll get drunk for a week — and I don't drink.

Brian Denton
17 Posted 14/03/2014 at 12:46:06
Kevin, you might find Paul's views on England more commonplace than you think among Evertonians....
Sean Patton
18 Posted 14/03/2014 at 13:15:46
Best of luck, Bryan.

As for England, I would rather Everton won the toss versus Cardiff than England win the World Cup.

Kevin Jones
19 Posted 14/03/2014 at 13:43:53
Sorry fellas, I respect your views but I just don't get it. We're all football mad, it's the biggest sport on the planet and we should get behind the national team. Not old enough to remember '66 but it must have of been brilliant. I'd absolutely love England to win it. Don't think they will but I can only wish.

Everton to Win The Cup or England to win the World Cup?? (rubs chin and mulls over own question...)

Sorry but I'd go for England, only because I've seen us win 2 FA Cups and we get a chance every year.

Robin Cannon
20 Posted 14/03/2014 at 16:23:30
Hmm, if I ever saw an England team playing great football I might want them to win. But to be honest, most of the time I'd prefer them to lose and knock off all the irritating faux-patriotism and bullshit - especially when the alternative is grinding out dire performances time and again and just scraping by.

I really couldn't care less about how the England team does.

Eugene Ruane
21 Posted 14/03/2014 at 16:32:40
Kevin Jones, if that's how you feel that's how you feel.

Me?

I wouldn't bat an eye if England lost every game from now til doomsday - to coin a phrase, I couldn't (and don't) give a fuck.

There is a reason..sort of.

I can't stand patriotism/nationalism in any form, or displays of the same.

I don't get people being 'proud' of a country they didn't choose to be born in.

I've never got it and never will.

I'm not screaming for them to lose or anything (like I am with the England Rugby Union side) I just don't give a fuck.

You were shocked and said 'words fail me' re Paul Ferry's sentiments but it might interest you to know you're the first Evertonian I've seen post, saying you would put an England trophy before an Everton trophy.

(nb: not saying you're the first to post it, just that I've seen).

Drew Shortis
22 Posted 14/03/2014 at 17:32:24
Best of luck to Bryan. Really hopes he gets to play in the World Cup! He deserves it for the amazing character and determination he has shown after such a horrific injury. It would be so easy to feel sorry for yourself but the lad has been full of positivity and optimism from day one, a great trait for an Evertonian!
Dave Williams
23 Posted 14/03/2014 at 17:41:09
Can't understand that Kevin- this club means far more to me than seeing a bunch of players from other clubs playing in the name of the country. I eat sleep and breathe this club and have done for fifty years through thick and thin and it is like a member of the immediate family- I want England to do well but a choice between them and Everton?- absolutely not a contest,but you are entitled to your opinion of course!
Geoff Evans
24 Posted 14/03/2014 at 18:18:06
All the very best of luck Bryan.
Geoff Evans
25 Posted 14/03/2014 at 18:25:45
Don't know what people are getting hot under the collar for, England have been a joke since 1970, we achieved the best we can by getting there. Before anybody calls me unpatriotic, I prefer realistic.
Tim Greeley
26 Posted 14/03/2014 at 18:58:58
We have missed him incredibly on the pitch.
Id be proud to point Bryan out as a Blue this summer to my friends who only pay attention to "soccer" every four years.
Then ill have to show them pics of his broken leg on my phone and feel guilty about it.....but what can ya do
Good luck Bryan! Viva Coastal Rica!
Mike Hughes
27 Posted 14/03/2014 at 19:13:23
Good luck to Bryan Oviedo. That would be an incredible story of character if he makes the World Cup. How many times will Costa Rica make it through in the future? Chance of a lifetime.

In fact, I'll be supporting Costa Rica if he does make it into their squad.

England? I won't be supporting them and never have despite being English (the only exception being in '86 when we had Reidy and Lineker in the team).

Do I want to see Creasehead lifting the World Cup and being lauded for the next few decades like Bobby Moore? No chance. I've never hated a player more than Gerrard - and I include Sewer Rat in that. Then there's the toe-curling Daniel (Danielle on weekends) Sturridge and his celebratory dance. What an embarrassment.

And listening to the cockney-accented mob chanting"Eng-ur-land" just makes me squirm. The same bunch of scumbags chanting, "sign-on" when they visit Goodison Park.

Stephen Doyle
28 Posted 14/03/2014 at 19:31:24
The image of the wannabe DJ lifting the World Cup is a dreadful thought. Find it hard to believe any Blue could cheer a side with that shitbag playing in it.
Dan Brierley
29 Posted 14/03/2014 at 19:34:59
Getting minutes on the pitch in the World Cup would be a just reward for not only shining on the pitch, but also being an absolute legend when injured and renewing my faith in footballers in general.

Seems like a genuine, down to earth bloke. Good luck, Bry, fingers crossed you make it fella.

Patrick Murphy
30 Posted 14/03/2014 at 19:57:47
I could just about endure Stevie Me Laaar holding the cup aloft if you could guarantee me that LFC would become like West Ham following 1966; A certain 3 points for the Toffees and a yo-yo club for nearly 50 years - only just about though.
Fran Grimes
31 Posted 14/03/2014 at 19:49:35
Personally, I will be supporting every team that has an Everton player in it: England with Baines, Jagielka, and Barkley; Costa Rica with Oviedo; and any other team.

I don’t support International teams; I would like England to do well, up to the point of not winning it, as the media would turn into a jingoistic fanfare.

My own country RoI, I cant fucking stand, albeit they now have a few blues on board, but the most successful ones had too many redshites to consider ever shouting for the boys in green. That little prick Houghton, the accent changing Whelan, the Lawrenson brasser, and born again Paddy Aldo. I could never contemplate supporting these players just because they changed the colour of their jersey.

One team One support. Otherwise you’re just another glory-hunting brasser.

Andy Meighan
32 Posted 14/03/2014 at 20:45:00
I'd be made up if he went to the World Cup. After that horrific injury, it's the least he deserves and sounds like a great lad as well. I hope they beat England; I'd love to see the kite on that miserable bastard across the park. I've never ever wanted England to win basically because there's always been shite players in the team and I just couldn't cheer any goal they scored. Even the night in Munich I didn't even get up off the couch. As Eugene said, I didn't choose to be born here. But I did choose to become an Evertonian. Fuck knows why...
Dave Williams
34 Posted 14/03/2014 at 21:52:41
I couldn't Patrick!!
A vomit- inducing vision and I won't be able to sleep tonight now!
Andy Meighan
35 Posted 14/03/2014 at 21:55:28
Kevin 683 underwater tiddlywinks. I must tune in sometime. How does that work then?
James Byrne
36 Posted 15/03/2014 at 05:19:17
Well done, Everton FC, for supporting Bryan and matching his optimism to get fit for the World Cup; he's a super lad and his attitude has been a breath of fresh air. I just wonder how personally involved Roberto has been in all this – I get the impression that our manager has helped Bryan mentally to get over this injury!

As for England, I can't stand watching them – I don't wish them to win anything while they have that prick Stevie G twat-face on the pitch. I also cringe at the thought that Henderson will be one of the first names on the team sheet. What a fucking donkey!

Roger Helm
37 Posted 15/03/2014 at 09:47:24
I'm made up for Bryan who is a great player and a likeable fella. I just hope he doesn't come back too early and get re-injured.

Like others, I would like any national team with a Blue to beat an England team without one. If both teams have one, I would feel neutral. I hate all the fake patriotism and nationalism during World Cups.

By the way, can someone at the club have a word with RM to stop saying "incredible" all the time – it's getting incredibly irritating.

Andy Meighan
38 Posted 15/03/2014 at 10:12:38
I remember in the 70s, England were playing I think it was Hungary and that shite had 7 players in the starting 11. I turned to me dad and said "I hope these get hammered" and mam asked "Why, lad?" I said, "Because there's SEVEN Liverpool players in the team, mam."

She turned round and said, "Oh, I hope they get slaughtered then."

Me dad said to her, "No wonder they're bitter.

Happy days, mam. 83 now and she's still the same. It's a generational thing, isn't it?

Ernie Baywood
39 Posted 15/03/2014 at 22:29:59
Don't particularly care how many Liverpool players are in the England team, I think I could probably get past that.

But I struggle to support a bunch of individuals like Rooney, Gerrard, Terry, Cole, Ferdinand. Lets face it, the mainstays of the team have been cunts for over a decade. Turned me off the team completely. Plus the media and the flag wavers.

Personally, the only thing better than seeing England get beaten will be to see an Everton player score the winning goal against them.

Best of luck Bryan!


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