{"id":721590,"date":"2026-06-07T19:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/721590\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T19:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:20:16","slug":"football-soccer-brazil-lose-injured-wesley-from-world-cup-squad-call-up-ederson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/721590\/","title":{"rendered":"Football: Soccer-Brazil lose injured Wesley from World Cup squad, call up Ederson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW JERSEY, June \u20607 (Reuters) &#8211; Brazil&#8217;s search for a reliable right \u2060back took another painful twist on \u200cSunday when Wesley was dropped from their World Cup squad after suffering a left thigh muscle injury, with Atalanta \u200bmidfielder Ederson called up in \u2060his place.<\/p>\n<p>The AS \u2060Roma defender, the only specialist right back in Carlo \u2060Ancelotti&#8217;s \u200c26-man squad, was injured during Saturday&#8217;s 2-1 friendly win over Egypt in \u2060Cleveland, the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said.<\/p>\n<p>Ancelotti \u200bmust now \u200cpatch up the flank with versatile centrebacks Danilo \u2060and \u200bIbanez as Brazil prepare for their Group C opener against Morocco on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The MRI scan revealed \u2060a muscle injury to the \u200badductor muscle in his left thigh,&#8221; the CBF said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The CBF regrets the injury. \u2060Wesley is a player much loved by the squad and will always be considered part of this team as it seeks to win \u200bits sixth World Cup title.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060CBF said Ederson would join the squad in \u200bthe United States on \u200cMonday.<\/p>\n<p>Five-times champions Brazil face Morocco, \u200bHaiti and Scotland in Group C.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Fernando Kallas, editing by Pritha Sarkar)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW JERSEY, June \u20607 (Reuters) &#8211; Brazil&#8217;s search for a reliable right \u2060back took another painful twist on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,13201,596,85,21418],"class_list":["post-721590","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\/721590","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=721590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}