{"id":484563,"date":"2026-02-19T05:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/484563\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T05:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:04:10","slug":"soccer-australia-defender-miller-ruled-out-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/484563\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Australia defender Miller ruled out of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">Australia defender \u2060Lewis Miller has been ruled out of \u200cthe soccer World Cup \u200cafter suffering an \u200cAchilles injury playing \u200cfor English club Blackburn, \u200cgoverning body Football Australia said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200c25-year-old right back, \u2060who \u200cwas hurt in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/team\/blackburn\/6Nl8nagD\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blackburn<\/a>&#8216;s \u200b3-1 win at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/team\/qpr\/lrMHUHDc\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queens Park Rangers<\/a> \u200bon Sunday, was instrumental in the Socceroos&#8217; \u2060qualifying \u200bcampaign, scoring two goals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/miller-lewis\/vVvM68Dr\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miller<\/a> underwent surgery and is expected to \u200cbe sidelined for up to nine months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Simply no words. Cruel world we live in,&#8221; Miller wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You best believe I&#8217;ll be \u200cback better than before, \u200bthat&#8217;s a promise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The \u200cWorld Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico starts June 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia defender \u2060Lewis Miller has been ruled out of \u200cthe soccer World Cup \u200cafter suffering an \u200cAchilles injury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-484563","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\/484563","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=484563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}