Latest Group H news ahead of the World Cup in South Africa which starts on June 11.SWITZERLANDValentin Stocker, included in the 23-man Switzerland squad last week, celebrated by scoring one goal and setting up another as FC Basel won 2-0 at Young Boys Berne to clinch the Swiss Super League on the final day of the season.Basel completed the double, having won the Swiss Cup the week before.Switzerland's squad includes four other Basel players -- midfielder Benjamin Huggel and forwards Xherdan Shaqiri, Alexander Frei and Marco Streller.Streller missed Sunday's game through suspension.SPAINSpain midfielder Andres Iniesta returned to action for Barcelona on Sunday, coming on for the last five minutes of their 4-0 home win over Real Valladolid that secured a second consecutive league title.The gifted playmaker has had an injury-interrupted season and damaged a thigh muscle a month ago which ruled him out of the Champions League semi-final against Inter Milan and Barca's run in to the end of the season.He was forced to drop out of their trip to South Africa for the Confederations Cup last summer because of a thigh injury.CHILEStriker Hector Mancilla said coach Marcelo Bielsa has granted him permission to play for his club Toluca in the two-leg Mexican Clausura final this week, postponing until next Monday his arrival for World Cup preparations."I'm staying to play the final and I have to arrive in Chile next Monday because there was a request by Toluca and an acceptance on the part of the Chile coaching staff," Mancilla told Mexican radio reporters.Toluca said that after the second leg of the final on Sunday they would fly Mancilla to Chile in a private jet.HONDURASCoach Reinaldo Rueda has urged media "not to generate false hopes" over Carlo Costly's possible quick recovery from surgery on a fractured foot in Italy at the weekend in time to play at the finals."We can't call up an injured player, not even recovering, unless it is manifest he will recover in a few days," Rueda, who left Costly out of the 23-man squad he named last week, said at the squad's training base in Heidelberg."We hope Carlo will recover soon and, why not, return to the national team in a short time," Rueda was quoted as saying in Honduran daily La Prensa, adding "We're not going to rush things."(Editing by Miles Evans; To query or comment on this story emailsportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)News posted by www.newsinfoline.com
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