{"id":762960,"date":"2026-06-27T03:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/762960\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T03:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:56:17","slug":"football-soccer-swedens-hien-out-of-world-cup-after-suffering-hamstring-injury-against-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/762960\/","title":{"rendered":"Football: Soccer-Sweden&#8217;s Hien out of World Cup after suffering hamstring injury against Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER, \u2060June 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Sweden defender Isak Hien will \u2060play no further part in the World \u200cCup after suffering a hamstring injury in their 1-1 draw with Japan on Thursday, the Swedish Football Association (SvFF) said.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bSwedes will face France in \u2060the round of \u206032 after advancing as one of the eight best \u2060third-placed \u200cteams, but the 27-year-old will be unavailable for coach Graham Potter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Isak has \u2060sustained an injury in his left hamstring \u200bto such \u200can extent that he will not be \u2060able to \u200bparticipate further in the World Cup,&#8221; national team doctor Jonas Werner said in a statement released \u2060by the SvFF on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will \u200breturn to his club, and the injury means that he will be away from football for \u2060some time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Potter said they would offer Hien their full support in his recovery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having to end the World Cup in this way with an \u200binjury is very sad and \u2060we will support him in the best way \u200bpossible,&#8221; he said in the \u200cstatement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s sad for him, but \u200bI&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll come back stronger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Philip O&#8217;Connor; Editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER, \u2060June 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Sweden defender Isak Hien will \u2060play no further part in the World \u200cCup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,13201,596,85,21418],"class_list":["post-762960","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\/762960","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=762960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}