LONDON: Ghana international Mohammed Kudus’ hopes for a return from a quad injury before the World Cup have taken a hit with Tottenham confirming the forward might need surgery.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old Kudus was expected to miss three months after getting injured in early January during Tottenham’s 1-1 draw with Sunderland \u2014 as then-Ghana coach Otto Addo watched.<\/p>\n
The club confirmed Kudus “suffered a setback in his return from injury.”<\/p>\n
“He had returned to team training during the past week, however will now require further specialist review and, potentially, surgery,” the club said in a statement. “We will provide any relevant further updates in due course. We’re all with you, Mo.”<\/p>\n
Kudus joined Spurs last summer from West Ham for a reported fee of 55 million pounds ($75 million). He’s scored three goals in 26 total appearances this season.<\/p>\n
On Friday, new Spurs manager Roberto De Zerbi said he considered Kudus “a crucial player, especially for the position, but we have to look forward anyway.” Relegation-threatened Tottenham visits Sunderland on Sunday.<\/p>\n
At the World Cup, Ghana plays its opening Group L game against Panama on June 17 in Toronto. The Black Stars then face England on June 23 in Foxborough and Croatia on June 27 in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
At the 2022 edition in Qatar, Kudus scored twice in Ghana’s 3-2 win over South Korea. It was Ghana’s only victory as it finished last in its group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON: Ghana international Mohammed Kudus’ hopes for a return from a quad injury before the World Cup have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17098,85,46,184228,184227,105,13583,9457],"class_list":["post-386456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ghana","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mohammed-kudus","tag-quad-injury","tag-sports","tag-surgery","tag-tottenham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}