{"id":69069,"date":"2026-05-31T23:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/69069\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T23:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:49:10","slug":"canadas-marcelo-flores-ruled-out-of-world-cup-with-acl-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/69069\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Marcelo Flores Ruled Out Of World Cup With ACL Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian winger Marcelo Flores will miss this summer’s World Cup after suffering a torn ACL in his right knee, head coach Jesse Marsch confirmed on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old Georgetown, Ontario native\u2014who plays club football for Mexico’s Tigres UANL\u2014was forced off in tears during the 77th minute of Saturday’s Concacaf Champions Cup penalty kick shootout loss to Toluca.<\/p>\n

Marsch expressed heartbreak for the young midfielder, noting that Flores remains in good spirits and has been invited to join the squad post-surgery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Obviously, we’re devastated for him,” Marsch said in a press conference. “Our hearts are with him. He\u2019s in good spirits. He\u2019s already focused on moving forward and getting himself healthy for the future.”<\/p>\n

Vice-captain Stephen Eust\u00e1quio echoed the sentiment, stating the team is motivated to play for their sidelined teammate.<\/p>\n

“Obviously there\u2019s a couple players that have been through that injury and we kind of knew that it could possibly be what it is,” Eust\u00e1quio said. “He was very important for us, as a person as well as a player.”<\/p>\n

Flores’ injury adds to a growing casualty list for Canada. While captain Alphonso Davies is still recovering from a hamstring injury<\/a> and is unlikely for the June 12 opener against Bosnia-Herzegovina, he is expected to play later in the tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Under tournament rules, Marsch has until 24 hours before Canada\u2019s first match to name Flores’ replacement, a decision he plans to evaluate after Monday\u2019s friendly against Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian winger Marcelo Flores will miss this summer’s World Cup after suffering a torn ACL in his right…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,27285,7724,28769],"class_list":["post-69069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-concacaf-champions-cup","tag-fifa-mens-world-cup","tag-tigres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}