Fear of injections cost Ribery, says doctor

The Bayern Munich man was withdrawn from Didier Deschamps' squad in Brazil, after failing to overcome a back injury.

Ribery, 31, missed three weeks in the latter part of the Bundesliga season, and France's doctor Franck Le Gall claimed Bayern were at fault for rushing him back for their DFB-Pokal final win over Borussia Dortmund on May 17.

"He was out for more or less three weeks and played a match which he probably shouldn't have played because he played through pain," Le Gall said.

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