{"id":563531,"date":"2025-11-11T12:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563531\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T12:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:21:12","slug":"spain-lamine-yamal-released-from-squad-after-groin-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563531\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain: Lamine Yamal released from squad after groin procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/rfef.es\/en\/noticias\/Lamine-Yamal-Withdrawn-from-the-Squad-for-Matches-Against-Georgia-and-Turkey\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement, external<\/a> read: &#8220;The medical services of the Royal Spanish Football Federation wish to express their surprise and concern upon learning, at 13:47 on Monday 10 November &#8211; the day the national team&#8217;s official training camp began &#8211; that Lamine Yamal had undergone an invasive radiofrequency procedure earlier that same morning to treat discomfort in his pubic area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This procedure was carried out without prior communication to the national team&#8217;s medical staff, who only became aware of the details through a report received at 22:40 last night, in which a medical recommendation of 7\u201310 days of rest was indicated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In light of this situation, and with the player&#8217;s health, safety, and wellbeing as the top priority, the Royal Spanish Football Federation has decided to release the player from the current squad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barcelona manager Hansi Flick criticised Spain for playing Lamine Yamal in qualifiers against Bulgaria and Turkey in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He missed four Barcelona games with a groin injury after that international break and was absent for Spain&#8217;s matches against Georgia and Bulgaria in October after aggravating the injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has played in Barcelona&#8217;s past six matches, scoring four goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spain manager Luis de la Fuente has called up Rayo Vallecano&#8217;s Jorge de Frutos to replace Lamine Yamal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Euro 2024 champions are top of Group E with two games remaining, three points above Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A statement, external read: &#8220;The medical services of the Royal Spanish Football Federation wish to express their surprise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-563531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115531040890394298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}