{"id":383020,"date":"2026-07-22T22:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383020\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T22:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:30:08","slug":"arsenal-defender-william-saliba-to-be-sidelined-for-extended-period-because-of-back-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383020\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal defender William Saliba to be sidelined for &#8216;extended period&#8217; because of back injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Arsenal center back William Saliba will avoid back surgery but faces an &#8220;extended period\u201d in rehabilitation, the defending Premier League champions said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old France international was substituted out of his national team&#8217;s 2-0 semifinal loss to France at the World Cup in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal confirmed in a medical update that Saliba sustained a back injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExtensive assessments have concluded that surgery is not recommended, but William should now commence a managed recovery program,\u201d Arsenal said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWilliam\u2019s rehabilitation will commence immediately, with continual management of his injury, and he is expected to be out of action for an extended period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Arteta&#8217;s team begins its title defense on Aug. 21 against newly promoted Coventry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Arsenal center back William Saliba will avoid back surgery but faces an &#8220;extended period\u201d in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,135142,135143,135144,202,196,130425],"class_list":["post-383020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-arsenal-saliba-back-injury","tag-coventry","tag-mikel-arteta","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-william-saliba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}