{"id":722345,"date":"2026-06-08T04:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/722345\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T04:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:56:09","slug":"jesse-marsch-to-give-moise-bombito-up-until-the-last-minute-to-be-ready-at-any-point-in-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/722345\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Marsch to give Moise Bombito \u2018up until the last minute\u2019 to be ready at any point in World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canadian Men\u2019s National Team head coach Jesse Marsch will give injured defender Moise Bombito \u201cup until the last minute\u201d to show he can be ready at any point in the upcoming FIFA World Cup 2026, reports Matthew Scianitti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was reported on Saturday that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/soccer\/article\/report-defender-bombito-to-be-replaced-on-canadas-world-cup-roster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/soccer\/article\/report-defender-bombito-to-be-replaced-on-canadas-world-cup-roster\/\">squad was getting set to replace Bombito<\/a> on its 26-player roster after the team determined the centre back\u2019s surgically repaired tibia is not healthy enough for him to compete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bombito broke his leg last October and returned to play 30 minutes in a friendly against Uzbekistan before limping off the field. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada has until June 11 at 3:00pm ET &#8211; 24 hours prior to its opening World Cup match against Bosnia and Herzegovina &#8211; to draw a replacement from the team\u2019s provisional 55-player roster, if Bombito does not show the form Marsch is looking for. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bombito is one of a long list of injuries for the Canadian team, joining Marcelo Flores (torn ACL &#8211; out for tournament), Alphonso Davies (hamstring), Jacob Shaffelburg (hamstring), Ali Ahmed (hamstring), and Alfie Jones (ankle).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian Men\u2019s National Team head coach Jesse Marsch will give injured defender Moise Bombito \u201cup until the last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,260504,82],"class_list":["post-722345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-moise-bombito-sports-soccer-player-player-statscom-1436934","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722345","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=722345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}