Wayne Rooney will recover from World Cup flop says Sir Alex Ferguson
The Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, has said Wayne Rooney will soon shake off the frustration of his World Cup performance, adding that Rooney would be disappointed to have missed an opportunity to impress on the world stage.
Rooney is not with Manchester United on their summer tour of North America, which will begin with what Ferguson has called a "particularly difficult" opening fixture against Celtic tomorrow night. He is being allowed to rest following an extended season which ended with England's second-round defeat by Germany in South Africa.
Ferguson is confident the 24-year-old striker will not dwell on his ineffective displays. Ferguson told sportsnet.ca: "I don't expect a hangover. I think there'll still be a bit of disappointment in the lad.
"I think all the players coming back from the World Cup who didn't do well, who didn't reach their expectations may I say, will feel that they've missed something. That's because the World Cup's only once every four years. That's the horrible part of that tournament.
"We have several players who have come back very, very disappointed. We've Patrice Evra for instance, Wayne Rooney of course, and Nemanja Vidic.
"I think one player who will come back quite positive because he had a good World Cup was young Javier Hernández from Mexico. I think he did very well and he surprised a lot of people. So whereas we've got some disappointments from players like Wayne, Nemanja and Patrice, I think we're going to have a positive effect from Javier."