Just days before the World Cup, Germany suffered the most devastating injury news possible. 18-year-old Bayern Munich wonderkid Lennart Karl was ruled out of the World Cup after suffering a muscle injury in training. After an excellent debut season with FC Bayern, the youngster was set to compete for a starting spot in Germany\u2019s games this summer.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the media after Germany\u2019s 2-1 win over the USMNT, Stuttgart striker Deniz Undav explained how Karl suffered his injury, and expressed his sorrow over the fact that the youngster will miss the tournament.<\/p>\n
Deniz Undav says Lennart Karl suffered the injury while attempting a shot shortly before the end of the final training session yesterday: \u201cWe all feel sorry for him. He\u2019s a great kid. He\u2019s done an excellent job here. But he has a huge future ahead of him and will play in many more tournaments\u201d [@kerry_hau]<\/p>\n
Injuries can strike at any time, for any reason, and Karl is proof of that. At the end of a long, grueling season, muscle injuries are a footballer\u2019s worst enemy, and the youngster drew the short straw this time. Now he will have to focus on his recovery, while Germany will have to figure out a way to win without him.<\/p>\n
If you are looking for more Bayern Munich and German national team coverage, check out the latest episodes of Bavarian Podcast Works, which you can get on Acast<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, Apple<\/a>, or any leading podcast distributor\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just days before the World Cup, Germany suffered the most devastating injury news possible. 18-year-old Bayern Munich wonderkid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22971,49,48,66350,82],"class_list":["post-720384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bayern-munich-injuries","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-german-national-team-and-international-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720384","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=720384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}