Kaka was not fit for duty - Brazil doctor


RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - Brazil team doctor Jose Luiz Runco admitted on
Sunday that star midfielder Kaka, who failed to shine at the World Cup, was not
properly fit and wouldn't have played at a lesser event.

"Maybe in other situations Kaka would not have played even the World
Cup, but he really wanted to be there," said Runco as the squad touched
down in Rio following their flight back from South Africa.

Kaka came into the tournament on the back of a disappointing season
with Real Madrid
which was marred by thigh problems which forced him to miss more than
six weeks of the season.

And when he did play the 65 million-euro summer signing from AC Milan did not hit the
heights, prompting him to admit that he had himself not been happy.

"I suffered a lot since I got injured," the 2007 world and European footballer of the year
told journalists.

Fans were not impressed and whistles and jeers were aimed in his
direction during Real's defeat by Lyon in the last 16 of the Champions
League in March.

But he shrugged it all off.

"They did it in Sao
Paulo, Brazil, with Milan ... it happens to all players. The fans
are very emotional," he said.

Kaka failed to score in the World Cup and was also red-carded, albeit
unjustly, in the group win over Ivory Coast.

Brazil were
eliminated by the Netherlands in the quarter-finals.