{"id":18565,"date":"2025-07-18T09:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18565\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T09:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:19:09","slug":"barcelona-goalkeeper-marc-andre-ter-stegen-could-miss-four-months-if-he-undergoes-back-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18565\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen could miss four months if he undergoes back surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"RUITTS\">Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen is said to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/2025\/7\/17\/24469282\/barcelona-goalkeeper-marc-andre-ter-stegen-evaluating-surgery-option-amid-back-injury-issues\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">considering going under the knife to cure a back problem<\/a> that has been affecting the stopper.<\/p>\n<p id=\"44Vm5M\">The Germany international has been training away from the squad in the first few days of pre-season, and it\u2019s claimed the back problem is the reason why.<\/p>\n<p id=\"nQXw1g\">According to Diario Sport, if Ter Stegen does decide to go down the surgical route he will be ruled out of action for four months.<\/p>\n<p id=\"kKohrB\">It\u2019s therefore a really big decision for the goalkeeper to make as it would keep him out of action until the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p id=\"QgcDk7\">Ter Stegen is also currently considering his future after being told by Hansi Flick he is no longer the No. 1 at Barcelona following the arrival of Joan Garcia.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Y0NTw3\">The report speculates that if he does undergo surgery, he could then look for a team in the January transfer market where he could play the second half of the season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"5uWXaa\">Ter Stegen knows he needs to be playing in the run-up to World Cup 2026 if he is to keep his spot as Germany\u2019s No.1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen is said to be considering going under the knife to cure a back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[4395,8235,422,418,1480,1481,423,6642,17156,424,17154,4392,2493,4214,17155,17157,403,99,4397,5313,4396,17158],"class_list":["post-18565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-andre","tag-back","tag-barca","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-la-liga","tag-barcelona-team-news","tag-blaugranes","tag-could","tag-four","tag-front-page","tag-goalkeeper","tag-he","tag-if","tag-marc","tag-miss","tag-months","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-stegen","tag-surgery","tag-ter","tag-undergoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}