MUNICH (AP) \u2014 Germany forward Serge Gnabry has ruled himself out of the World Cup after tearing a muscle in his right thigh while training with Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n
Bayern said on Saturday that Gnabry had torn the adductor muscle in his thigh and would be out \u201cfor a longer period\u201d without giving any further details.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the player confirmed on Instagram that he\u2019ll miss the World Cup in Mexico, Canada and the United States in June.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last few days have been tough to process. A Bayern season which still holds much to play for after securing another Bundesliga title on the weekend,\u201d Gnabry wrote. \u201cAs for the World Cup dream with Germany. That\u2019s sadly over for me.<\/p>\n
“Like the rest of the country, I\u2019ll be supporting the boys from home. Now it\u2019s time to focus on recovery and getting back for pre-season. Thank you for all the messages.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gnabry contributed eight goals and set up seven more as Bayern broke the Bundesliga record for goals scored before it clinched the title last weekend.<\/p>\n
He started every World Cup qualifier for Germany and two friendlies in March, and was sure to have been included in coach Julian Nagelsmann\u2019s plans for the upcoming tournament.<\/p>\n
Germany faces Curacao, Ivory Coast and Ecuador in Group E.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MUNICH (AP) \u2014 Germany forward Serge Gnabry has ruled himself out of the World Cup after tearing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2042,5,6616,138,2041,799,795,385],"class_list":{"0":"post-6825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-germany","10":"tag-germany-serge-gnabry-injury-world-cup","11":"tag-julian-nagelsmann","12":"tag-mexico","13":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","14":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","15":"tag-serge-gnabry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}