{"id":600100,"date":"2026-04-22T18:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/600100\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:52:08","slug":"bayern-munich-germany-winger-serge-gnabry-to-miss-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/600100\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich, Germany winger Serge Gnabry to miss World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 22, 2026, 01:05 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"25b5e432-d3d2-939f-f73b-6e531a6fbd91\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=132\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayern Munich<\/a> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"de751eda-c32e-4714-1774-ff1ead8ca19b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=481\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Germany<\/a> winger <a data-player-guid=\"3b043ed5-7ec3-e518-f2e6-6f0e8db396dd\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/178980\/serge-gnabry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serge Gnabry<\/a> has confirmed that he will miss this summer&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern announced Saturday that Gnabry tore the adductor muscle in his right thigh and will be out &#8220;for a longer period,&#8221; putting his participation in the finals in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/48542182\/bayern-deserve-celebrated-bundesliga-title-win\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The beer shower can wait, but this Bayern side deserves to be celebrated<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old has now confirmed he&#8217;ll be forced to watch the tournament from home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last few days have been tough to process,&#8221; he posted on Instagram on Wednesday. &#8220;A Bayern season which still holds much to play for after securing another <a data-league-guid=\"30244926-00c4-3f69-8946-f8421c97ff71\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/GER.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bundesliga<\/a> title on the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Serge Gnabry has been a key player for Germany and Bayern Munich.\u00a0Angel Martinez\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As for the World Cup dream with Germany .. That&#8217;s sadly over for me. Like the rest of the country I&#8217;ll be supporting the boys from home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now it&#8217;s time to focus on recovery and getting back for pre-season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"feb44e87-58fa-9597-2691-b3c32768ebe4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=359\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> player started every World Cup qualifier for Germany and two friendlies in March, and was sure to have been included in coach Julian Nagelsmann&#8217;s plans for the tournament in Mexico, Canada and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>After clinching the Bundesliga title on Sunday, Bayern face <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"483ec574-cb09-6d8f-e308-302d5d695d70\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=131\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayer Leverkusen<\/a> away in the <a data-league-guid=\"63426d30-c253-35c4-06bd-39a16d440ed2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/GER.DFB_POKAL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">German Cup<\/a> semifinals on Wednesday, before they turn their attention to <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"79843c9e-0fe0-63b4-b591-9affc0dbd517\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=160\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> in the Champions League semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Gnabry contributed eight goals and set up seven more as Bayern broke the Bundesliga record for goals scored.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 22, 2026, 01:05 PM ET Bayern Munich and Germany winger Serge Gnabry has confirmed that he will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-600100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600100","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=600100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}