{"id":432713,"date":"2026-01-25T17:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432713\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T17:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:57:16","slug":"injured-argentina-defender-juan-foyth-set-to-miss-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432713\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured Argentina defender Juan Foyth set to miss World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MADRID (AP) \u2014 Argentina defender Juan Foyth has ruptured his left Achilles tendon while playing for Villarreal in the Spanish league and is set to miss the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Foyth was injured in the 23rd minute of Villarreal\u2019s 2-0 loss to Real Madrid on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Villarreal said Sunday that tests confirmed the injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The club said it will \u201cprovide further information in due course regarding the surgical procedure he will have to undergo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Recovery time for such injuries can be up to a year, meaning the 28-year-old central defender likely won\u2019t be able to play in the World Cup that begins in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Foyth has had long-term knee and shoulder injuries in the past. He recently had his contract with Villarreal extended until 2029.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADRID (AP) \u2014 Argentina defender Juan Foyth has ruptured his left Achilles tendon while playing for Villarreal in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-432713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432713","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=432713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}