{"id":723515,"date":"2026-06-08T18:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/723515\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:14:10","slug":"souttar-continues-world-cup-prep-with-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/723515\/","title":{"rendered":"Souttar continues World Cup prep with Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester City defender Harry Souttar was in action at the weekend as preparations for the World Cup ramp up.<\/p>\n<p>The Australia international captained the Socceroos for 82 minutes during their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/cwy2dvq58w1t?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D#Line-ups\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:1-1 draw with Switzerland;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;1-1 draw with Switzerland&quot;}\" class=\"link \">1-1 draw with Switzerland<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old missed most of the Championship season for the Foxes due to an Achilles injury but could feature for Australia once the World Cup begins on 11 June.<\/p>\n<p>The centre-back was part of the 2022 squad, which equalled their best World Cup performance by reaching the last 16.<\/p>\n<p>Australia are in Group D and will face Turkey, hosts USA and Paraguay.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780942450_455_.gif\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicester City defender Harry Souttar was in action at the weekend as preparations for the World Cup ramp&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[180721,64,63,350428,308052,44,7104,42150,6221,21418],"class_list":["post-723515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-achilles-injury","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-international","tag-harry-souttar","tag-news","tag-paraguay","tag-socceroos","tag-switzerland","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723515","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=723515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}