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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LONDON (Reuters) -- Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand will be out of action until the end of September, manager Alex Ferguson said on Friday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The England captain, 31, missed the recent World Cup after suffering knee ligament damage on the first day of training in South Africa.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"I still think Rio won't be back until the end of September,\" Ferguson told reporters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"At the time Steve McNally, the club doctor, said September. We're quite near the mark.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"It was a knee ligament injury. Not the cruciate, it was medial ligaments. It was a freak training ground accident at the World Cup.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"It was nothing to do with his back, which was a problem for him last season. But I think he should be back late September.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ferdinand is likely to miss Premier League matches against Fulham, West Ham, Everton and Liverpool and England's Euro 2012 qualifiers against Bulgaria and Switzerland.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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