{"id":35037,"date":"2026-03-19T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/35037\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:07:07","slug":"switzerland-recalls-sanches-ahead-of-world-cup-one-year-after-he-tore-acl-on-debut-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/35037\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland recalls Sanches ahead of World Cup one year after he tore ACL on debut | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERN, Switzerland (AP) \u2014 Switzerland recalled Alvyn Sanches ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/fifa-world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a> on Thursday, exactly one year after he <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/switzerland-alvyn-sanches-injury-lausanne-28141e72dfb4741bff63bf942d2be014\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tore an ACL<\/a> 25 minutes into his international debut.<\/p>\n<p>Sanches, AC Milan playmaker Ardon Jashari and Monaco captain Denis Zakaria are among fit-again players back in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football.ch\/fr\/asf\/equipes-nationales\/equipe-a\/news\/%C3%A9quipe-nationale-masculine-26-joueurs-convoqu%C3%A9s-pour-les-matches-contre-l-allemagne-et-la-norv%C3%A8ge.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coach Murat Yakin\u2019s plans<\/a> for warmup games this month. The Nati plays two teams also going to the World Cup co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>kAm$H:EK6C=2?5 9@DED v6C&gt;2?J \ud83d\ude15 q2D6= @? |2C49 af E96? 8@6D E@ 7246 }@CH2J \ud83d\ude15 ~D=@ 7@FC 52JD =2E6C]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAm$2?496D 8@E 9:D 7:CDE 42== @?6 J62C 28@ 5FC:?8 2 DE2?5@FE D62D@? 7@C {2FD2??6[ E96? 9FCE 2 66 566A :?E@ DE@AA286 E:&gt;6 @7 2 `\\` 5C2H \ud83d\ude15 2 7C:6?5=J 2E }@CE96C? xC6=2?5]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAm%96 ab\\J62C\\@=5 $2?496D &gt;@G65 E@ *@F?8 q@JD \ud83d\ude15 $6AE6&gt;36C H9:=6 DE:== :?;FC65 7@C 2 4FE\\AC:46 EC2?D76C 766 3642FD6 9:D 4@?EC24E H:E9 {2FD2??6 H2D 6IA:C:?8 E9:D D62D@?]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAm$H:EK6C=2?5 25G2?465 E@ :ED D:IE9 DEC2:89E &gt;6?\u2019D (@C=5 rFA 2?5 H2D 5C2H? :?E@ 2 8C@FA H:E9 r2?252[ &#8220;2E2C 2?5 E96 H:??6C @7 2 tFC@A62? A=2J@77D 3C24&lt;6E @? |2C49 b` H9:49 4@F=5 36 xE2=J]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>k9C ^m<\/p>\n<p>kAmp! D@446Ci k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^9F3^D@446CQm9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^9F3^D@446Ck^2mk^Am<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERN, Switzerland (AP) \u2014 Switzerland recalled Alvyn Sanches ahead of the World Cup on Thursday, exactly one year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10940,2019,307,17,20709],"class_list":{"0":"post-35037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-fifa-world-cup","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-switzerland","12":"tag-switzerland-alvyn-sanches-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116255761550911138","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}