{"id":48943,"date":"2026-03-26T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/48943\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:00:19","slug":"injury-blows-tomiyasus-world-cup-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/48943\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury Blows Tomiyasu&#8217;s World Cup Hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Takehiro Tomiyasu, the Japanese defender currently with Ajax Amsterdam, will miss the upcoming friendlies against Scotland and England due to an injury. This setback cloud&#8217;s Tomiyasu&#8217;s chances of joining the World Cup squad later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old has faced injury woes since leaving Arsenal last year, featuring only briefly for the Premier League side in the 2024-25 season because of a knee problem. His transfer to Ajax has brought little relief, offering him just six appearances in all competitions so far.<\/p>\n<p>Japan, led by head coach Hajime Moriyasu, has important preparatory matches against Scotland and England as they gear up for the World Cup. The team is aiming for a strong performance in Group F, where they are set to clash with the Netherlands, Tunisia, and a playoff winner.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Takehiro Tomiyasu, the Japanese defender currently with Ajax Amsterdam, will miss the upcoming friendlies against Scotland and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[101],"tags":[749,199,748,3966,27377,27378,3160,200,27379,5262,753,10778],"class_list":["post-48943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-amsterdam","tag-ajax","tag-amsterdam","tag-arsenal","tag-england","tag-friendlies","tag-injury","tag-japan","tag-netherlands","tag-preparations","tag-scotland","tag-takehiro-tomiyasu","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116294662780180288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}