{"id":660681,"date":"2026-05-10T18:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T18:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660681\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T18:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T18:32:11","slug":"concerns-over-nico-williams-injury-with-athletic-bilbao-ahead-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660681\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns over Nico Williams&#8217; injury with Athletic Bilbao ahead of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MADRID (AP) \u2014 Spain forward Nico Williams had to be substituted before halftime in Athletic Bilbao\u2019s 1-0 loss to Valencia at home on Sunday, prompting concerns ahead of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Williams appeared to suffer a hamstring injury and was replaced by brother I\u00f1aki Williams in the 37th minute at San Mam\u00e9s stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nico Williams had already been sidelined for several weeks earlier this year because of another injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Athletic did not immediately release details about Sunday\u2019s issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe was limping a lot. He hadn\u2019t felt that type of pain before,\u201d I\u00f1aki Williams said. \u201cIt\u2019s concerning considering the moment we are right now. Let\u2019s wait and hope for the best possible scenario.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 23-year-old Nico Williams has been a regular in Spain\u2019s squad, playing in attack along with Barcelona\u2019s Lamine Yamal, who is also injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Spain coach Luis de La Fuente is set to announce a 55-name pre-list for the World Cup on Monday.<\/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 Spain forward Nico Williams had to be substituted before halftime in Athletic Bilbao\u2019s 1-0 loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-660681","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\/660681","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=660681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}