BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Kiko Alonsos season is over before it even began after the Buffalo Bills starting linebacker was diagnosed with a torn ligament in his left knee. General manager Doug Whaley provided the update in a statement released by the team on Wednesday, a day after Alonso was hurt while working out in Oregon. Whaley said Alonso will require surgery to repair a torn ACL, and "will likely miss the 2014 season." The Bills did not provide any details as to how Alonso was hurt. The injury is a significant blow to the Bills before they even open training camp in suburban Rochester on July 20. Alonso was an NFL defensive rookie of the year contender last season after being drafted in the second round out of Oregon. He led Buffalo with 159 tackles, two fumble recoveries and tied for the team lead with four interceptions while barely missing a snap in playing all 16 games. After playing in the middle last season, Alonso was moving to the outside linebacker spot as part of the Bills shift to a 4-3 defensive scheme under new co-ordinator Jim Schwartz. The position switch was also sparked in part by the Bills signing of run-stopping specialist Brandon Spikes, who is better suited to play in the middle. Alonso had hip surgery this off-season, which limited him in participating in spring practices. But he was expected to be ready for the start of camp. "We feel badly for Kiko, because he has worked very hard this off-season in preparation for the upcoming season," Whaley said. "But we look forward to his return with his style of play that made him one of the leagues outstanding rookies in 2013." The Bills do have some depth behind Alonso. Manny Lawson, an eight-year NFL veteran, has experience playing the position. The Bills also selected linebacker Preston Brown in the third round of the draft in April. Ray Bourque Jersey . 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Getzlaf scored the first two goals in the second, and Teemu Selanne scored the go-ahead goal late in the period as the Anaheim Ducks beat the Nashville Predators 4-3 Thursday night.FRANKFURT - At a reception shortly before Christmas, German football federation president Wolfgang Niersbach said his plan for the holidays was to sit back on a sofa, shut off the radio and television and think about the wonderful year behind him.After winning a fourth World Cup title, Germany has plenty of reason to celebrate 2014 as an extraordinary year. But the Germans dont want to rest on their laurels and again end up waiting 24 years for a World Cup title.The year behind us was extraordinary but it shouldnt be the only one, Niersbach said. We are not going to lean back. Thats why weve set out a 10-year plan.The ambitious long-term project is aimed at making success more permanent. Few would consider Germany a failure in football, but the title in Brazil was its first championship since the 1996 European Championship.When you are first, you always have something to lose, German national team director Oliver Bierhoff said. Its dangerous to think its always going to continue like that. We went through that in 1990. Ten years later, you wake up and notice that youve slept through something.Germany coach Joachim Loew hopes his team can create somewhat of a dynasty, like Spain did with two consecutive European titles and a World Cup.We want to leave our mark on an entire era, Loew said.Germany hopes to follow its World Cup triumph with the 2016 European Championship title in France. Then there are World Cups in 2018 and 2022 and another European tournament in 2020.We are still hungry, ssaid Hansi Flick, Loews assistant in Brazil and now the federations technical director.ddddddddddddNiersbach said we should be thankful and humble for what weve achieved, but promised to embark on the project for the future.The plan culminates with the 2024 European Championship that Germany hopes to be awarded.It would be a wonderful perspective for us and our most ambitious goal to get the 2024 championship and we are confident we are going to get it, Niersbach said. Not many nations are able to host a 24-team competition.Germany plans to use 10 stadiums, all of them already in existence and most used for the 2006 World Cup.Another highlight of the project is an 89 million euro ($109 million) academy to be built on the outskirts of Frankfurt, the federations biggest investment to date. The national training and research facility will be home not only to Loews team but also to all other national selections starting at youth level.Its important to use the momentum of the World Cup title and to lay down structures for future success, Bierhoff said.He and Flick will visit the United States early in 2015 to visit similar academies, and Bierhoff said the academy will also offer its know-how to other nations.Work on the academy is scheduled to start in 2016 and to be completed by the end of 2018. Frankfurt residents, however, have started a move that could end up in a referendum and ultimately scuttle the project despite previous approval and a contract with city authorities. 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