{"id":383151,"date":"2026-04-16T21:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383151\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:57:09","slug":"all-whites-captain-chris-wood-injured-again-weeks-out-from-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383151\/","title":{"rendered":"All Whites captain Chris Wood injured again weeks out from World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JQ1HJ2_AFP__20260409__A7BJ3ED__v1__HighRes__FblEurC3PortoNottinghamForest_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"699\" alt=\"Nottingham Forest's New Zealand striker Chris Wood\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nNottingham Forest&#8217;s New Zealand striker Chris Wood<br \/>\nPhoto: MIGUEL RIOPA \/ AFP\n<\/p>\n<p>All Whites Chris Wood&#8217;s World Cup is in doubt after suffering an injury playing for Nottingham Forest on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The All Whites striker went down clutching his knee following a heavy tackle early in the game which resulted in a red card for Porto&#8217;s Jan Bednarek.<\/p>\n<p>Wood attempted to play on but was soon substituted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This was the (horrendous) tackle from Jan Bednarek that led to Chris Wood being subbed off injured<\/p>\n<p>Bednarek was red carded after a VAR check<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FlyingKiwis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#FlyingKiwis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SOZ2cQ24TH\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/SOZ2cQ24TH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Niche Cache (@thenichecache) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thenichecache\/status\/2044879318829195659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is just a week back in the club&#8217;s top side following knee surgery in December.<\/p>\n<p>BBC analyst Dion Dublin said Wood looked devastated as he hobbled off the field.<\/p>\n<p>It will be of huge concern for the All Whites with their opening World Cup game against Iran just two months away.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday Wood admitted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/592486\/chris-wood-says-knee-injury-is-something-he-ll-have-to-managed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that the injury would be something that he would have<\/a> to manage for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A knee injury is always horrible, you never know what could happen in the future or how you are going to come back from it,&#8221; he said on the eve of his latest match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So mentally, that&#8217;s one of the tough things to deal with. But I had confidence I was always going to come back. I got very close to returning pre-surgery and it just didn&#8217;t happen. That&#8217;s just unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest&#8217;s New Zealand striker Chris Wood Photo: MIGUEL RIOPA \/ AFP All Whites Chris Wood&#8217;s World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-383151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}