Hoddle assures no injuries worries over Ince

LONDON, May 26 (AFP)

Glenn Hoddle the England coach insisted on Tuesday the Liverpool star Paul Ince will be fit for France 98 after he broke down with an ankle injury during the final training session prior to facing Morocco in Casablanca on Wednesday. Ince has only started training again this week, after suffering an ankle injury in a challenge on Arsenals Ian Wright three weeks ago. Ince was immediately surrounded by all four members of their medical team and given treatment to the damaged ankle. But Hoddle afterwards insisted: "There is no problem in terms of him not recovering for the first game in France."  The England coach said Ince had been withdrawn only as a precaution and had not even ruled him out from playing in Wednesdays match. Hoddle added: "There is still a slight problem with the ankle and weve decided as a result to pull him out of this mornings session."  There is nothing mega-drastically wrong and it was more of a precautionary thing. He was going to play in Morocco but we will now decide on that later today when things have settled down.

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