{"id":7899,"date":"2026-03-23T15:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/7899\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:19:08","slug":"club-brugges-hans-vanaken-and-arsenals-leandro-trossard-out-of-belgiums-us-friendlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/7899\/","title":{"rendered":"Club Brugge&#8217;s Hans Vanaken and Arsenal&#8217;s Leandro Trossard out of Belgium&#8217;s US friendlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS (AP) \u2014 Club Brugge midfielder Hans Vanaken and Arsenal winger Leandro Trossard have been ruled out of Belgium\u2019s upcoming friendly matches in the United States ahead of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian federation said on Monday that both players are hampered by physical issues and won\u2019t join their teammates. They had been called up by coach Rudi Garcia <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/belgium-squad-world-cup-stassin-de-cat-godts-8ac8d043d77da402e6c6af13e77af4dd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a group of 28 players on Friday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis decision will allow them to continue their rehabilitation under optimal conditions,\u201d the federation said.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium takes on the United States on March 28 in Atlanta and faces Mexico three days later in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup starts in June. <\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS (AP) \u2014 Club Brugge midfielder Hans Vanaken and Arsenal winger Leandro Trossard have been ruled out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5362,7,4988,5457,5416,3121,5422,2732,5407,3934,1176,4975],"class_list":{"0":"post-7899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-belgium","10":"tag-belgium-national-soccer-team","11":"tag-central-america","12":"tag-hans-vanaken","13":"tag-latin-america","14":"tag-leandro-trossard","15":"tag-mexico","16":"tag-rudi-garcia","17":"tag-soccer","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states-national-soccer-team"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116279165770429465","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7899","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=7899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}