{"id":134032,"date":"2025-11-11T13:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/134032\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T13:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:25:09","slug":"spain-lamine-yamal-released-from-squad-after-groin-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/134032\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain: Lamine Yamal released from squad after groin procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/rfef.es\/en\/noticias\/Lamine-Yamal-Withdrawn-from-the-Squad-for-Matches-Against-Georgia-and-Turkey\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement, external<\/a> read: &#8220;The medical services of the Royal Spanish Football Federation wish to express their surprise and concern upon learning, at 13:47 on Monday 10 November &#8211; the day the national team&#8217;s official training camp began &#8211; that Lamine Yamal had undergone an invasive radiofrequency procedure earlier that same morning to treat discomfort in his pubic area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This procedure was carried out without prior communication to the national team&#8217;s medical staff, who only became aware of the details through a report received at 22:40 last night, in which a medical recommendation of 7\u201310 days of rest was indicated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In light of this situation, and with the player&#8217;s health, safety, and wellbeing as the top priority, the Royal Spanish Football Federation has decided to release the player from the current squad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barcelona manager Hansi Flick criticised Spain for playing Lamine Yamal in qualifiers against Bulgaria and Turkey in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He missed four Barcelona games with a groin injury after that international break and was absent for Spain&#8217;s matches against Georgia and Bulgaria in October after aggravating the injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has played in Barcelona&#8217;s past six matches, scoring four goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spain manager Luis de la Fuente has called up Rayo Vallecano&#8217;s Jorge de Frutos to replace Lamine Yamal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Euro 2024 champions are top of Group E with two games remaining, three points above Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A statement, external read: &#8220;The medical services of the Royal Spanish Football Federation wish to express their surprise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-134032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}