World Cup 2010: coaches admit stopping Englands Wayne Rooney will be tough

By Mark Ogden Published: 7:00AM GMT twenty-five February 2010

Centre of attention: England"s Wayne Rooney is in such a abounding capillary of form he is being touted, in a little quarters, as the most appropriate player in the universe Photo: PA

It was the idealisation articulate shop, nineteen of the world"s heading coaches underneath one roof tiles in a lush road house in Sun City, thrashing out the key issues in the rave to World Cup 2010.

But whilst England physical education instructor Fabio Capello sat behind with thoughts of the construction work at the inhabitant team"s half-built Royal Bafokeng precision bottom inaugural in his mind, his World Cup rivals had one subject winning on tip of all else.

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Rooney"s dual goals in Manchester United"s 3-0 feat opposite West Ham United on Tuesday took his deteriorate total to twenty-eight for bar and country. More impressively, his new transport is nineteen goals from his last nineteen games.

The twenty-four year-old"s overwhelming opening for United opposite AC Milan in the San Siro last week, when he scored twice in a 3-2 victory, stirred Sir Alex Ferguson to explain that Rooney was right away estimable of comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.

And as South Africa prepares to acquire the world"s biggest players in 4 months" time, those coaches charged with nullifying the hazard acted by Rooney confess he is rising as the one player who could win the World Cup for England.

Joachim Low, the Germany coach, joked: "Wayne who? No, I know him all right! At the impulse he is one of the really most appropriate strikers in the world.

"My feeling, when I see him, is that he is unstoppable. He has all that a striker needs. I can"t contend who is the most appropriate since players are different. Cristiano Ronaldo is between the most appropriate also, but he is really different.

"What counts about Rooney is that he is in unimaginable form, with the inhabitant organisation as well as with Manchester United.

"Whether it is in the English League, the Champions League or for his country, nobody can stop him at the moment."

South Africa manager Carlos Alberto Parreira, who comparison a 17-year-old Ronaldo in Brazil"s 1994 World Cup-winning squad, added: "I saw the diversion opposite Milan and what he did on the representation was amazing, not usually his goals, but he is in the most appropriate form of his life."

Rooney"s performances opposite Algeria and Slovenia in Group C this summer could figure England"s future in South Africa. And the coaches of both nations confess that interlude Rooney will be the priority, despite a formidable charge to achieve.

Algeria manager Rabah Saadane said: "When I see at Rooney, I see a player who is flourishing day after day, removing improved all the time. Now he is at the summit.

"It is not only the goals he is scoring and the bent he has, but he is additionally at the tip of his majority as a player and that is what defines a good player.

"For me he is one of the tip dual in the world. And if he is not the most appropriate yet, afterwards he can turn that man and really soon.

"I think the total universe is right away watchful to see what he can do when England come to South Africa."

Slovenia face England in Port Elizabeth on Jun twenty-three and manager Matjaz Kek claims that Rooney is the man who Capello will rely on to take his organisation to the latter stages.

Kek said: "Rooney is right away in the incident that he can think of himself of being at the same turn as Messi and Ronaldo.

"He is somebody who creates his organisation win and that is the most appropriate thing you can contend about any player that he is an particular who creates his organisation in to winners.

"Rooney is right away very, really dangerous, not in a disastrous clarity but a certain one.

"For any opponent, he is right away some-more dangerous than he has ever been before, positively some-more than he was in 2006 or even 2004, when we all recollect how well he played for England in Portugal."

Although Australia manager Pim Verbeek billed Rooney as the "extra-special" player compulsory by any organisation with ambitions of light the World Cup, Portugal manager Carlos Queiroz, who worked with Rooney and Ronaldo at Old Trafford, insists that Ronaldo stays the world"s No 1.

Queiroz said: "Rooney is you do really well, but Ronaldo is the most appropriate player in the universe and I goal that he will come by the World Cup carrying scored lots of goals and still the most appropriate player in the world.

"Wayne is a good player, though, and I worked with him for most years at United. He is a illusory player and a good veteran who is removing improved all the time, but Cristiano is the most appropriate in the world."

Rooney"s change on England and their World Cup aspirations cleared over France manager Raymond Domenech, however.

Domenech said: "England? Why would I speak about England? They are not in the group."