{"id":512752,"date":"2026-06-22T15:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/512752\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:04:13","slug":"world-cup-2026-germany-defender-nico-schlotterbeck-to-miss-rest-of-tournament-with-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/512752\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Germany defender Nico Schlotterbeck to miss rest of tournament with ankle injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Schlotterbeck had played the entirety of Germany&#8217;s opening game at the 2026 World Cup &#8211; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c621jz79r3jt\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">7-1 win against Curacao<\/a> &#8211; scoring their second goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Schlotti will be greatly missed on the pitch as an outstanding defender, especially his excellent build-up play,&#8221; said Germany manager Julian Nagelsmann.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It could have been his World Cup. Yesterday, we all tried to lift his spirits &#8211; fortunately, he is a very positive character who is already looking ahead again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is a very positive sign that he will initially remain here within the team, because he also has an influence off the pitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Germany&#8217;s remaining centre-back options are Jonathan Tah, Rudiger, Waldemar Anton and Newcastle&#8217;s Malick Thiaw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Schlotterbeck had been linked with a move away from Borussia Dortmund <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bvb.de\/de\/en\/news\/news-overview\/news.html\/2026\/4\/10\/Borussia-Dortmund-extends-contract-with-Nico-Schlotterbeck.html\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but signed a contract extension, external<\/a> with them until 2031 in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Schlotterbeck had played the entirety of Germany&#8217;s opening game at the 2026 World Cup &#8211; a 7-1 win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-512752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512752","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=512752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}