{"id":188280,"date":"2026-02-22T03:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/188280\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T03:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:27:24","slug":"stephen-afrifa-injury-questionable-for-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/188280\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Afrifa Injury: Questionable for opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gn-news__notes\">Afrifa (hamstring) is questionable for Saturday&#8217;s season opener against San Jose, according to the MLS injury report.<\/p>\n<p>Afrifa is listed as questionable for Saturday&#8217;s season opener against San Jose Earthquakes as he continues to work his way back from a hamstring issue. The forward is trending toward a game-time call and will likely need to prove his fitness late in the week before a final decision is made. Even if he&#8217;s ruled out, it shouldn&#8217;t shake up the starting XI too much, as he primarily operated as a depth piece off the bench last season.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gn-subscribe-cta__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rotowire.com\/images\/rebrand-assets\/site-logo\/logo_symbol.svg\" alt=\"RotoWire\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Win Your League With RotoWire!<\/p>\n<p>Unlock our premium fantasy soccer tools<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"gn-subscribe-cta__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rotowire.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign Up Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Afrifa (hamstring) is questionable for Saturday&#8217;s season opener against San Jose, according to the MLS injury report. Afrifa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[87129,88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-188280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-minor-league-stats","9":"tag-san-jose","10":"tag-san-jose-headlines","11":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}