{"id":608922,"date":"2026-04-27T08:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/608922\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:24:08","slug":"xavi-simons-netherlands-and-tottenham-midfielder-to-miss-rest-of-season-and-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/608922\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavi Simons: Netherlands and Tottenham midfielder to miss rest of season and 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The injury to Simons comes amid Spurs fighting for Premier league survival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham<\/a> are in the relegation zone in 18th place and two points from safety with four games left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2026 World Cup, which is taking place in the United States, Canada and Mexico, begins on 11 June, with the Netherlands starting their campaign in Group F against Japan on 14 June.     <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All I&#8217;ve wanted to do is fight for my team and now the ability to do that has been snatched away from me \u2026 along with the World Cup,&#8221; added Simons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Representing my country this summer \u2026 just gone. It&#8217;ll take time to find peace with this, but I&#8217;ll continue to be the best team-mate I can be. I have no doubt that together we&#8217;ll win this fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll walk this path now, guided by faith, with strength, with resilience, with belief, as I count down the days to getting back out there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Be patient with me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The injury to Simons comes amid Spurs fighting for Premier league survival. Tottenham are in the relegation zone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-608922","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\/608922","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=608922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}