Germany forward Lennart Karl has been ruled out of the 2026 World Cup with a thigh injury.<\/p>\n
The highly rated 18-year-old suffered the issue in Germany’s final training session before a warm-up game against World Cup co-hosts United States.<\/p>\n
Bayern Munich’s Karl started in Germany’s 4-0 win against Finland in a friendly on Sunday, during which he set up one of the goals, but he will now be replaced by RB Leipzig’s Assan Ouedraogo. <\/p>\n
“I feel incredibly sorry for Lenny,” said Germany manager Julian Nagelsmann.<\/p>\n
“It’s a huge shock for him and all of us that he’s missing the World Cup. It’s only a small consolation that he’s young and has many tournaments ahead of him. We would have loved to have him on the team. <\/p>\n
“With Assan Ouedraogo, we’re now getting a player who, like Lenny, had a fantastic start with us. He’s also highly talented and we expect him to play with courage and freedom.”<\/p>\n
The game against the US is Germany’s last before they start their World Cup campaign against Curacao on 14 June.<\/p>\n
Nagelsmann’s side then have further Group E games against Ivory Coast on 20 June and Ecuador on 25 June. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany forward Lennart Karl has been ruled out of the 2026 World Cup with a thigh injury. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-718524","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\/718524","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=718524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}