{"id":416675,"date":"2026-01-18T04:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416675\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T04:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:19:13","slug":"canmnts-joel-waterman-lower-body-injury-out-in-friendly-vs-guatemala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416675\/","title":{"rendered":"CanMNT\u2019s Joel Waterman (lower-body injury) out in friendly vs. Guatemala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Central defender Joel Waterman is not expected to suit up in Canada\u2019s friendly tonight against Guatemala due to a lower-body injury, per TSN\u2019s Matt Scianitti. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Scianitti reports that Waterman picked up the injury in training this week, but it\u2019s not a big concern, and the team is sitting him out so he can be ready for the MLS season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Waterman was traded to the Chicago Fire from CF Montreal in August in exchange for $500,000 in general allocation money. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 29-year-old has earned 15 caps for Canada internationally and was a member of the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup squad, 2024 Copa America and 2022 FIFA World Cup rosters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Central defender Joel Waterman is not expected to suit up in Canada\u2019s friendly tonight against Guatemala due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[712,49,48,561,174983,82],"class_list":["post-416675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-soccer-sports-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}