{"id":26101,"date":"2026-05-19T04:42:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/26101\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T04:42:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:42:39","slug":"fermin-lopez-to-likely-miss-world-cup-after-injury-with-fc-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/26101\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferm\u00edn L\u00f3pez to likely miss World Cup after injury with FC Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/sports\/\" title=\"Navigate to Sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a>Published: May. 18, 2026, 10:29 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Spain La Liga Soccer\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/35Q4SBVFINCQBBAOUFBWFYFTF4.jpg\"  \/>Real Madrid&#8217;s Aurelien Tchouameni fights for the ball against Barcelona&#8217;s Fermin Lopez during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo\/Joan Monfort)AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6C4BMF67XZCFNIPJJIEWG2LPDA\">A midfielder who helped Spain win an Olympic gold medal in 2024 will likely miss the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/topic\/World-Cup\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/topic\/World-Cup\/index.html\">World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NXGFL7NFRFE4VGX2CCEDT44XEI\">FC Barcelona <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FCBarcelona\/status\/2056343339792732516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FCBarcelona\/status\/2056343339792732516\">announced<\/a> Monday morning that Ferm\u00edn L\u00f3pez suffered a fracture to the fifth metatarsal bone in his right foot during the team\u2019s match against Betis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"A4LY23YY2VEFRE3DP4IFUC2O3E\">L\u00f3pez will undergo surgery and a timetable for his return is not yet known. <\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/boston\/2026\/05\/how-attending-a-world-cup-match-in-foxborough-can-quickly-cost-1000.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/boston\/2026\/05\/how-attending-a-world-cup-match-in-foxborough-can-quickly-cost-1000.html\">How attending a World Cup match in Foxborough can quickly cost $1,000<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"O4TFAYCB5JCPNII342RYKJ5LKU\">Spain plays its first World Cup match on Monday, June 15 when it faces Cape Verde. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OSVXLVVV25HRPOM5K64CBVPMAE\">The 23-year-old midfielder participated on the Spanish team that won both the 2024 European Championship and the Olympics in Paris. During the Olympics, L\u00f3pez scored six goals \u2014 two of which came in the championship match against France. <\/p>\n<p>Meredith Perri is the managing producer of sports at MassLive, working with the Red Sox beat, the Patriots beat and the sports desk. She is a 2014 graduate of Boston University, an alumna of the APSE Fellowship&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SportsPublished: May. 18, 2026, 10:29 a.m.Real Madrid&#8217;s Aurelien Tchouameni fights for the ball against Barcelona&#8217;s Fermin Lopez during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,6491],"class_list":["post-26101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-xlaligax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}