{"id":411683,"date":"2026-01-14T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411683\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:11:08","slug":"socceroos-midfielder-jackson-irvine-ruled-out-until-further-notice-with-recurrence-of-foot-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411683\/","title":{"rendered":"Socceroos midfielder Jackson Irvine ruled out &#8216;until further notice&#8217; with recurrence of foot injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Jackson Irvine has joined Socceroos coach Tony Popovic&#8217;s growing injury list after the influential midfielder&#8217;s club ruled him out of action indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Irvine&#8217;s Bundesliga club, St Pauli, said on Wednesday the 32-year-old would be unavailable &#8220;until further notice&#8221;, in an announcement that is sure to cause Popovic concern just five months out from the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 80-cap midfielder has suffered a recurrence of the stress injury in his left foot that ruled him out of last year&#8217;s World Cup qualifiers, and led to the St Pauli captain spending the best part of six months on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It is unclear whether Irvine, who underwent surgery last year, will have to go under the knife again, but his absence is a major blow for St Pauli as it battles to avoid relegation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The next steps are now being discussed by all the parties involved,&#8221; St Pauli said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radio\/programs\/abc-sport-daily\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC Sport Daily podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">ABC Sport Daily is your daily sports conversation. We dive into the biggest story of the day and get you up to speed with everything else that&#8217;s making headlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The midfielder had just returned to full fitness over the past month, playing five straight games for St Pauli in the Bundesliga and German Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Irvine has often acted as the Socceroos&#8217; back-up captain to Mat Ryan during Popovic&#8217;s reign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">His latest injury setback will also be a worry for the Socceroos set-up as the World Cup in the US comes into focus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Leicester defender <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-01-21\/socceroos-looking-for-harry-souttar-replacement\/104840898\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/104840898\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Souttar has still not returned to club football after injuring his Achilles tendon<\/a> more than 12 months ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Souttar&#8217;s likely replacement \u2014 Portsmouth defender Hayden Matthews \u2014 is also expected to miss the next eight weeks with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jackson Irvine has joined Socceroos coach Tony Popovic&#8217;s growing injury list after the influential midfielder&#8217;s club ruled him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,3899,85316,42150,85,217770,21418],"class_list":["post-411683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-injury","tag-jackson-irvine","tag-socceroos","tag-sports","tag-st-pauli","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}