Germany coach Joachim announced that the commander of Love Maker Games team and the English Chelsea's Michael Ballack absent from the first two games against Liechtenstein and Norway on Saturday and next Wednesday in the first and second round matches in the group's fourth World Cup European qualifying for the World Cup in 2010 in South Africa.

Love said on the sidelines of the match to honor the giant goalkeeper Oliver Kahn, Tuesday, "Ballack would not play for Finland because he needed to rest for 8 to 9 days."

The German Federation announced earlier that Ballack absent from the game Saturday in front of Liechtenstein, pointing out that no decision had been taken regarding the Finland match next Wednesday.

Ballack was directed yesterday to a clinic doctor Bayern Munich and German national team where he discovered his injury haematoma and inflammation in his left foot.

Ballack and the withdrawal of the two matches is not a surprise, including Love announced that since many days that his participation at the beginning of the qualifiers "are not included large rate", pointing out that the injury suffered by Black is not dangerous itself suffered by the ankles left and excluded him from the playgrounds for 8 months in 2007 .

For his part, Valencia midfielder David Silva withdrawing from two matches of his country's team champion Spain Europe for Bosnia and Armenia on Saturday and next Wednesday in Murcia and Albacete in the seventh round of the group because of injury in the left ankles, according to the French newspaper "Le Monde".

The source added that Spain coach Vicente Del Bosco decided not to call any player to compensate for the absence Silva, who became the second player to withdraw from the squad after the Liverpool striker Fernando Torres in which English was injured in the thigh and calling Stoyan Krkic Barcelona striker to replace him.