{"id":8386,"date":"2026-03-25T17:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/8386\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:06:22","slug":"belgium-rules-out-hans-vanaken-and-leandro-trossard-for-us-friendlies-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/8386\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium rules out Hans Vanaken and Leandro Trossard for US friendlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS (AP) \u2014 Club Brugge midfielder Hans Vanaken and Arsenal winger Leandro Trossard have been ruled out of Belgium&#8217;s 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&#8217;t join their teammates. They had been called up by coach Rudi Garcia in a group of 28 players on Friday.<\/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","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":8387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5362,7,5940,5416,5422,2732,5942,5941,5407],"class_list":{"0":"post-8386","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-world-cup-vanaken-trossard","11":"tag-hans-vanaken","12":"tag-leandro-trossard","13":"tag-mexico","14":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","15":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","16":"tag-rudi-garcia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116290911236004191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8386","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=8386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}