France team doctor Franck Le Gall has slammed Bayern Munich over Franck Ribery's World Cup ending injury.
Le Gall said Ribery played as a substitute in the German Cup final on May 17 with-pain killing injections having suffered from back trouble for several weeks.
"Franck belongs to a club whose method of treatment for all pathologies, whatever they might be, is based on injections," Le Gall said in a strong indictment of the Bundesliga champions.
"He had suffered from lumbago for several weeks. Despite that, he was lined up for the German Cup final," Le Gall told a news conference at France's Ribeirao Preto base in Brazil.
"He shouldn't have played that match. He then came to us after he'd had pains for three weeks.
"Don't forget he had an operation for a haematoma in his buttocks in February. He's had a series of injuries since January," Le Gall was quoted by Le Figaro.
"We could have chosen to infiltrate him, which we didn't. At a certain moment he'd had enough of (injections), so we didn't do that because he's afraid of jabs."
