Van Nistelrooy Back In Team Training

tRuud has not appeared in a Real Madrid shirt since the 1-0 home defeat to Getafe on February 24th due to an ankle injury that required surgery.

Now he's one step closer to returning to action in time for the run-in after making his first-team training comeback today at Valdebebas.

The veteran Dutchman, who has made 20 Liga starts this season, will hope to line up in the first eleven soon to add to his tally of 12 goals so far in the 2007-08 Primera campaign.

However, he will not be risked for the encounter with Athletic Bilbao at the weekend. Instead, he has a chance of meeting Osasuna the week after.

Elsewhere on the training pitch, coach Bernd Schuster almost had a full house to contend with: only Guti and Raúl joined long-term absentee Christoph Metzelder in the gym.

The rest of the first team squad mostly undertook physical training under the guidance of Jordi García.


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