{"id":558698,"date":"2026-03-23T08:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558698\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:38:08","slug":"arsenals-william-saliba-withdraws-from-france-squad-with-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558698\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal’s William Saliba withdraws from France squad with ankle injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal<\/a> defender William Saliba<\/a> has withdrawn from the France<\/a> squad with an injury for their friendlies against Brazil<\/a> and Colombia<\/a> this month with Crystal Palace<\/a>‘s Maxence Lacroix<\/a> replacing him in the 27-man party.<\/p>\n

Saliba played 90 minutes in Arsenal’s Carabao Cup<\/a> final defeat on Sunday but will not join up with his nation due to a “left ankle injury.”<\/p>\n

Lacroix earns his first senior call-up after playing a part in every game across all competitions for Palace this season so far.<\/p>\n

“First call-up to Les Bleus for Maxence Lacroix,” France Football Federation said.<\/p>\n

William Saliba will play no part in France’s March fixtures.\u00a0Photo by Richard Sellers\/Sportsphoto\/Allstar via Getty Images<\/p>\n

“The CPFC defender, aged 25 and already having gone through the youth teams, is expected this Monday at Clairefontaine.<\/p>\n

“He is replacing William Saliba, who has a left ankle injury, and we wish him a speedy recovery.”<\/p>\n

Didier Deschamps’ side travel to the United States in the March international break to take on Brazil in Foxborough on March 26 before playing Colombia in Maryland on March 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal defender William Saliba has withdrawn from the France squad with an injury for their friendlies against Brazil…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-558698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558698","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=558698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}