{"id":15815,"date":"2026-05-15T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/15815\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:20:10","slug":"raskin-earns-belgium-world-cup-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/15815\/","title":{"rendered":"Raskin earns Belgium World Cup call-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:BBC;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"BBC\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"195\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2023-07\/9188fa80-1cd1-11ee-adeb-4290b12541e6.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fri, May 15, 2026 at 2:52 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/27D41B6B021E39A73C1CFD5B1393183343C2F3178CE270C815A90A412DA9CA4B\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w976_h549;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Raskin earns Belgium World Cup call-up<\/p>\n<p>Rangers midfielder Nicolas Raskin has been included in Rudi Garcia&#8217;s Belgium squad for the World Cup in the Americas this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old, who made his Red Devils debut last year under Garcia, has 11 caps and featured in all but one of their World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin netted his first senior international goal during the 6-0 win over Kazakhstan last September.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium will face Croatia and Tunisia in two friendly matches at the start of next month before heading to the finals where they are in Group G with Egypt, Iran and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder has made 50 appearances, scoring seven goals and providing nine assists, this season for Rangers, who have finished third in the Premiership and failed to win a trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, May 15, 2026 at 2:52 PM UTC Raskin earns Belgium World Cup call-up Rangers midfielder Nicolas Raskin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,5417,2063,5407,6066],"class_list":["post-15815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-nicolas-raskin","tag-red-devils","tag-rudi-garcia","tag-world-cup-qualifiers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116579272330625209","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}