Wigan defender not frightened of Rooney

The Wigan Athletic defender will come face to face with the England international in Cardiff on Sunday, yet he insists he is not worrying too much over facing a player he considers the best in the country."I am not going to lose any sleep over how good he is or how good United are,” said de Zeeuw. "We have to look at ourselves and concentrate on the way we play and how we approach the game.""He has magnificent natural talent and ability and it would certainly help us if he didn't have a good day on Sunday, that's for sure. But big players tend to play well on big occasions.”

Rooney and friends

If you want to know the people who play in the same team of your favourite soccer player, here is the list of all Manchester United stars!

MANCHESTER UNITED TEAM

Number

Name

Nationality

GK
1
Tim Howard »
USA
19
Edwin van der Sar »
HOL
30
Luke Steele *
ENG
48
Thomas Lee *
ENG

DF
2
Gary Neville »
ENG
4
Gabriel Heinze »
ARG
5
Rio Ferdinand »
ENG
6
Wes Brown »
ENG
22
John O'Shea »
IRL
26
Phil Bardsley * »
ENG
27
Mikaël Silvestre »
FRA
28
Gerard Piqué »
ESP
44
Adam Eckersley *
ENG
47
Jonny Evans »
NIR

MF
13
Ji-Sung Park »
KOR
17
Liam Miller »
IRL
18
Paul Scholes »
ENG
23
Kieran Richardson * »
ENG
24
Darren Fletcher * »
SCO
25
Quinton Fortune »
RSA
45
David Fox »
ENG
46
Lee Martin »
ENG
49
Richard Jones *
ENG

AT
7
Cristiano Ronaldo »
POR
8
Wayne Rooney »
ENG
9
Louis Saha »
FRA
10
Ruud van Nistelrooij »
HOL
11
Ryan Giggs »
WAL
14
Alan Smith »
ENG
20
Ole Gunnar Solskjær »
NOR
40
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake *
ENG
42
Giuseppe Rossi »
ITA

Players with this sign(*) are in the B list

Cantona fears for Rooney

"I love Rooney as a player," Cantona was quoted as saying in Wednesday's Guardian newspaper. "But I am a bit worried. Rooney can become the best player in the world at 25, 26, if he knows that in football you need to be strong, train hard, go to bed early, be careful what you are eating, what you are drinking, what you do in life.
"That is very, very important. At the same time, I am a bit worried, that at 25, 26, he could be out of the best teams, out of England, out of the best 100 players. Completely out."
Cantona said Rooney could end up like Robbie Fowler.
"Fowler was so good at 18, and four, five years later, at 23 or 24, finished, not even for England, not even for the best teams," Cantona said. "Finished. Completely. Out. Why?"