{"id":609753,"date":"2026-05-29T05:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609753\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T05:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:31:10","slug":"cartilage-free-captain-2-0-kulusevkis-sweden-doctor-gives-update-on-his-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609753\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartilage Free Captain 2.0? Kulusevki\u2019s Sweden doctor gives update on his injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201dIt\u2019s been a long story with Dejan. He\u2019s done everything he can to get ready [for the World Cup], but when it came to deciding [if he would make the squad] he wasn\u2019t. The reason is that he hasn\u2019t played football in a year, but even the medical assessments made this spring have pointed in the direction that he wouldn\u2019t be ready.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cCartilage injuries, like in Dejan\u2019s case, are troublesome. They are difficult to treat. Plus, he has it in a place that gets a lot of stress. The injury simply hasn\u2019t healed enough to handle that stress. I have high hopes for that and I really hope so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201dIt\u2019s been a long story with Dejan. He\u2019s done everything he can to get ready [for the World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,53930,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-609753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609753","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=609753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}