Football: Van Basten's chance: Dutch marksman on course for America
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Your support makes all the difference.MARCO VAN BASTEN, out of action for more than a year with an ankle injury, may make his comeback in the World Cup finals. The 29- year-old Milan striker has been drafted into the Dutch squad in place of Ruud Gullit, who walked out of a training camp on Monday.
Van Basten said he was going to the United States 'not to play but to work', although if required by the Dutch coach, Dick Advocaat, he 'would play the final 10 or 15 minutes of a match'. He will make his decision today.
Milan's fitness coach, Vincenzo Pincolini, however, warned against Van Basten's participation, saying: 'He risks throwing away a top- level career that could last another four or five years.'
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