{"id":585131,"date":"2026-05-15T08:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585131\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:11:08","slug":"kaoru-mitoma-injured-japan-winger-left-out-of-26-man-world-cup-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585131\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaoru Mitoma: Injured Japan winger left out of 26-man World Cup squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Thursday, Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler said the club &#8220;really have to be patient&#8221; with Mitoma&#8217;s injury, adding &#8220;we cannot give a clear schedule&#8221; as to when he will be fit again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The expanded 48-team World Cup starts on 11 June and is being co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Japan squad in full: <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Goalkeepers: Tomoki Hayakawa (Kashima Antlers), Keisuke Osako (Sanfrecce Hiroshima), Aya Suzuka (Parma Calcio). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defenders: Yuto Nagatomo (FC Tokyo), Shogo Taniguchi (Sint-Truiden), Ko Itakura (Ajax), Tsuyoshi Watanabe (Feyenoord), Takehiro Tomiyasu (Ajax), Hiroki Ito (Bayern Munich), Ayumu Seko (Le Havre AC), Yukinari Sugawara (Werder Bremen), Junosuke Suzuki (FC Copenhagen). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Midfielders: Wataru Endo (Liverpool), Junya Ito (Genk), Daichi Kamada (Crystal Palace), Koki Ogawa (NEC Nijmegen), Daizen Maeda (Celtic), Ritsu Doan (Eintracht Frankfurt), Ao Tanaka (Leeds United), Kaishu Sano (Mainz 05), Takefusa Kubo (Real Sociedad)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forwards: Ayase Ueda (Feyenoord), Keito Nakamura (Stade de Reims), Ito Suzuki (SC Freiburg), Kento Shiode (Wolfsburg), Keisuke Goto (Sint-Truiden). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler said the club &#8220;really have to be patient&#8221; with Mitoma&#8217;s injury, adding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-585131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}