{"id":713275,"date":"2026-06-03T20:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713275\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T20:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:14:10","slug":"football-soccer-austria-stick-with-world-cup-squad-after-baumgartner-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713275\/","title":{"rendered":"Football: Soccer-Austria stick with World Cup squad after Baumgartner injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 3 (Reuters) &#8211; \u2060Austria head coach Ralf \u2060Rangnick has decided not to \u200ccall up a replacement to his World Cup squad following the loss \u200bof midfielder Christoph Baumgartner \u2060to injury, the \u2060Austrian Football Association (OFB) said on \u2060Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Baumgartner was \u200cruled out of the tournament after \u2060sustaining a thigh injury before Monday&#8217;s \u200b1-0 \u200cfriendly win over Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>The loss \u2060of the \u200b26-year-old RB Leipzig player is seen as a major \u2060blow for Austria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is \u200bof course very bitter news for Christoph and for us as \u2060a team,&#8221; Rangnick said.<\/p>\n<p>The squad departs for the United States on Thursday ahead of their \u200bopening Group J \u2060match against Jordan on June \u200b16 before facing \u200cArgentina and Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting \u200bby Tommy Lund in Gdansk, editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 3 (Reuters) &#8211; \u2060Austria head coach Ralf \u2060Rangnick has decided not to \u200ccall up a replacement to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,13201,596,85,21418],"class_list":["post-713275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713275","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=713275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}