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Article: De la Cruz has his uses as he gives hometown running water
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- June 24, 2006
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ULISES de la Cruz has spent this week plotting how to stop Wayne
Rooney as the Ecuador wing-back prepares for the biggest game of his
life against England in Stuttgart tomorrow.
The 32-year-old, still on the books but facing an uncertain future
at Aston Villa, even suggested tongue-in-cheek that he might give the
English talisman's "foot a kick to test it out".
De la Cruz will hope that he does not have to resort to such
extreme measures to halt Rooney in the last-16 clash, and is
confident his experience in the English Premiership will stand him in
good stead against some familiar faces.
The stocky Ecuadorean has played in Britain for the past five