{"id":479519,"date":"2026-06-16T04:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479519\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T04:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:51:09","slug":"major-injury-blow-for-all-whites-hours-before-world-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479519\/","title":{"rendered":"Major injury blow for All Whites hours before World Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

The All Whites have suffered a major injury blow ahead of their FIFA World Cup opener<\/a> against Iran today. <\/p>\n

Midfielder Matt Garbett has suffered a hamstring injury<\/a> and will be out of the squad for the rest of the tournament.<\/p>\n

Auckland FC winger Logan Rogerson has now been called up and will travel to join the team “immediately”. <\/p>\n

Garbett, who plays for Peterborough United in England’s League 1, will be out of action for at least a month, according to NZ Herald. <\/p>\n

Watch the All Whites vs Iran live and free on TVNZ+<\/a> and TVNZ 1 at 1pm<\/p>\n

Follow live updates here<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a devastating blow for the 24-year-old, who had put in a good performance during the All White’s warm-up game against England<\/p>\n

“The whole squad’s thoughts are with Matt at this time, and we are gutted he won’t be able to play in the tournament,” an NZ Football spokesperson said. <\/p>\n

“We look foward to seeing him back on the pitch soon.” <\/p>\n

1News\u2019 Zion Dayal is in LA ahead of the All Whites\u2019 opening World Cup clash with Iran. (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n

New Zealand start their World Cup campaign in Los Angeles in a game against Iran at 1pm. <\/p>\n

Watch all matches at the World Cup with an event pass on TVNZ+<\/a> | All Whites games free-to-view on TVNZ1 and TVNZ+<\/p>\n

The morning’s headlines in 90 seconds, including Donald Trump’s claimed breakthrough with Iran, Britain’s move to ban social media for under-16s, and a dream FIFA World Cup debut for Cabo Verde. (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The All Whites have suffered a major injury blow ahead of their FIFA World Cup opener against Iran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2965,2966,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-479519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-all-whites","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479519","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=479519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}