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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
years, since Alex McLeish made him ...