Slipped disc sets back Bayern's Podolski

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2008

MUNICH, Germany (AFP) — Luckless Lukas Podolski has suffered a further injury setback with a slipped disc and will be missing when Bayern Munich resume their Bundesliga campaign on Friday.

After last summer's knee injury, the 22-year-old, voted the best young player at the 2006 World Cup, struggled to break into the Bayern first team with first-choice strikers Miroslav Klose and Luca Toni blocking his path.

Podolski has had just two Bundesliga starts this season and with just five months to this June's Euro 2008 tournament, the timing of his back injury could not be worse.

Bayern's coach Ottmar Hitzfeld confirmed the news to German sports agency SID on Sunday with the Bundesliga leaders back in action on Friday night when they are at Hansa Rostock.

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