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Xhaka was playing for Arsenal at the time in 2022 before moving to Bayern Leverkusen the following year and joining Sunderland in 2025.<\/p>\n
Switzerland\u2019s most capped player with 152 appearances, Xhaka withdrew from their Nations League matches against Scotland, North Macedonia and Slovenia in the recent international break.<\/p>\n
A fan of Switzerland midfielder Granit Xhaka holds up a banner in the crowd ahead of the UEFA Nations League match between Scotland and Switzerland. (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN \/ AFP)<\/p>\n
Source: AFP<\/p>\n
On Monday, Xhaka admitted that he had presented a forged certificate to avoid mandatory vaccination during the Covid crisis.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the time, I was very worried about the issue of Covid-19 vaccination \u2026 I felt deep mistrust regarding the vaccine and was gripped by anxiety and doubt,\u201d he said on Instagram.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday I clearly see that I made the wrong choice. It was a mistake. I am sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Xhaka added that he was \u201ccooperating fully with the relevant authorities\u201d.<\/p>\n
Switzerland are subsequently set to face Slovenia on November 13 and Scotland on November 16, also as part of the Nations League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Switzerland captain Granit Xhaka has been fined 150,000 Swiss francs (AUS$260,000) after admitting using a forged Covid vaccine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-921091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921091","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=921091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}