{"id":521413,"date":"2026-03-07T23:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521413\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T23:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:48:07","slug":"canada-soccer-takes-another-hit-after-luc-de-fougerolles-sustains-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521413\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada soccer takes another hit after Luc de Fougerolles sustains ankle injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Following a collision during FC Dender\u2019s game against Charleroi on Saturday in Belgium, Luc de Fougerolles has a swollen ankle, and will receive further imaging in the coming days. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 20-year-old left Saturday\u2019s game in the 33rd minute. In his first full season playing first division soccer, de Fougerolles has been a defensive workhorse for Dender playing 23 league games and finishing a full 90 minutes seven times.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Following a collision during Dender&#8217;s game against Charleroi, Luc de Fougerolles has a swollen ankle, but there&#8217;s no word on its prognosis, yet. The 20-year-old will get further imaging in the coming days <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TSN_Sports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNSoccer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TSNSoccer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matthew Scianitti (@TSNScianitti) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNScianitti\/status\/2030397734189162940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nevertheless, de Fougerolles injury now adds another injury to Canada\u2019s ailing defence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alphonso Davies (hamstring), Mo\u00efse Bombito (broken leg), Derek Cornelius (hamstring), Alfie Jones (foot), and Alistair Johnston (hamstring) are all on the shelf for their respective clubs less than 100 days from Canada\u2019s opening game of the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bombito and Davies are already back doing some light running, while Cornelius is training with his club\u2019s first team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Reports this week out of Scotland suggest, Johnston is closing in a return to action, despite some recent setbacks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada\u2019s men will meet-up again at the end of the month for two international friendly matches at BMO Field in Toronto, against Iceland on March 28 and Tunisia on March 31.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a collision during FC Dender\u2019s game against Charleroi on Saturday in Belgium, Luc de Fougerolles has a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[712,49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-521413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521413","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=521413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}