Doctor approved recovery program for Adi Mutu after knee surgery

The Romanian player of the football team, Adrian Mutu, underwent a medical examination by Doctor Piepaolo Mariani on Tuesday. Eight days ago, Mariani has performed a surgical intervention on Mutu’s left knee. After Tuesday’s examination, Mariani allowed Mutu to start the recovery program. The attacker will attend new medical tests in fifteen days, and his return to the Stadium is expected in approximately a month. In the meantime, the football player will attend a special recovery program destined to strengthen his muscles and joints.

Mutu underwent surgery a week ago at a clinic in Rome, due to medical issues at his left knee.

Due to the diagnosis established by the Italian doctors, Adrian Mutu is to stay out of the pitch for 30–40 days, and will miss the games versus Calgari, Udinese, Rome and Turin. The Romanian player might attend the game versus Catania, scheduled on May 10, and the last four rounds of the A Series.

15,000 demand 1973 European final result is reversed

LONDON – AC Milan’s 1-0 win over Leeds United in the 1973 European Cup Winners’ Cup final should be reversed if new evidence is found to suggest the match was fixed, according to a European Member of Parliament (MEP). Richard Corbett, who represents the Yorkshire & Humber constituency at Brussels, has collected 15,000 signatures for a petition to be handed in to European soccer’s governing body UEFA on May 16, the 36th anniversary of the match. Corbett is asking UEFA to investigate the final, and if new evidence is found that it was fixed it should be awarded to Leeds. “Following UEFA’s recent crackdown on betting syndicates and match fixing, UEFA can now show the whole of Europe that even if a match happened many years ago, cheating and corruption will not be tolerated,” he told Reuters in a telephone interview on Wednesday. (Reuters)

Victor Hanescu eliminated by Murray in second round of Monaco Masters

The Romanian tennis player Victor Hanescu lost on Tuesday to British tennis player Andy Murray, Number 4 in ATP charts, in the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters, and left the EUR 2.75 million-competition. Murray won the game in two sets, by 6–3, 6–2, at the end of a game that lasted for an hour and 25 minutes. Due to his achievements at this tournament, Hanescu gained EUR 14,500 and 45 ATP points.

Motor racing-F1 appeal court boosts Button’s chances

LONDON – Formula One championship leader Jenson Button’s title hopes received a significant boost on Wednesday when a Paris appeal court ruled the Briton’s controversial Brawn GP car was legal. The International Automobile Federation (FIA)’s court of appeal also cleared Toyota and Williams, whose cars use similar ‘double-decker’ or ‘split-level’ rear diffusers and which rivals had claimed broke the spirit of the rules. Button won the first two races of the season in Australia and Malaysia after overcoming protests from struggling champions Ferrari, Renault, Red Bull and BMW-Sauber. The four teams had then appealed against the stewards’ decisions. The FIA said in a statement that the court, which met on Tuesday, had decided “to deny the appeals submitted”. (Reuters)