{"id":758001,"date":"2026-06-24T21:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758001\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T21:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:57:20","slug":"football-soccer-australia-defender-italiano-ruled-out-of-paraguay-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758001\/","title":{"rendered":"Football: Soccer-Australia defender Italiano ruled out of Paraguay match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA CLARA, \u2060California, June \u206024 (Reuters) &#8211; Australia full back \u200cJacob Italiano has been ruled out of the \u200bWorld Cup Group \u2060D clash \u2060against Paraguay due to \u2060an \u200cadductor injury, coach Tony \u2060Popovic said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Italiano, \u200bwho \u200cstarted both Australia\u2019s opening \u2060games, \u200bsuffered the injury during training.<\/p>\n<p>His absence \u2060will prompt a \u200breshuffle in defence, with Jason Geria and Aziz \u2060Behich among potential replacements.<\/p>\n<p>Australia need a win or a \u200bdraw on \u2060Thursday to reach the \u200bround of \u200c32.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by \u200bIan Ransom; Editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA CLARA, \u2060California, June \u206024 (Reuters) &#8211; Australia full back \u200cJacob Italiano has been ruled out of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,13201,596,85,21418],"class_list":["post-758001","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\/758001","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=758001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}