{"id":8044,"date":"2026-03-24T05:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/8044\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T05:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:14:20","slug":"belgiums-soccer-squad-setback-for-u-s-world-cup-warm-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/8044\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium&#8217;s Soccer Squad Setback for U.S. World Cup Warm-Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Belgium&#8217;s national soccer team is confronting challenges ahead of their World Cup preparation matches in the United States, as they will be missing two key players, Leandro Trossard and Hans Vanaken.<\/p>\n<p>Trossard, who plays for Arsenal and has recently recovered from a hip injury, has opted out of the friendly games in consultation with his club. This decision allows him to continue his rehabilitation in London.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Club Brugge&#8217;s captain Hans Vanaken will miss the matches due to his ongoing recovery from a hip injury. Consequently, Belgium must strategize for their fixtures against co-hosts United States and Mexico without these players.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Belgium&#8217;s national soccer team is confronting challenges ahead of their World Cup preparation matches in the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1858,7,1852,499,5416,2641,5422,5764,3934,1849],"class_list":{"0":"post-8044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-belgium","10":"tag-club-brugge","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-hans-vanaken","13":"tag-injury","14":"tag-leandro-trossard","15":"tag-rehabilitation","16":"tag-soccer","17":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116282449212048271","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044","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=8044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}