{"id":574291,"date":"2025-11-16T14:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/574291\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T14:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:40:17","slug":"official-injured-inter-star-calhanoglu-to-miss-spain-vs-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/574291\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Injured Inter star Calhanoglu to miss Spain vs. Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish Football Federation confirms that <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/inter-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inter<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/hakan-calhanoglu-24999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hakan Calhanoglu<\/a> will miss Tuesday\u2019s game against <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/spain-34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spain<\/a> due to a wrist injury.<\/p>\n<p>Inter star Calhanoglu won\u2019t be available for Turkey\u2019s World Cup qualifying game against <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/spain-34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spain<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>MILAN, ITALY \u2013 OCTOBER 29: <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/hakan-calhanoglu-24999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hakan Calhanoglu<\/a> of FC <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/inter-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internazionale<\/a> celebrates after scoring their team\u2019s third goal during the <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/serie-a-13\/fixtures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Serie A<\/a> match between FC <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/inter-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internazionale<\/a> and ACF Fiorentina at Giuseppe Meazza Stadium on October 29, 2025 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish FA said on Sunday (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcinter1908.it\/ultimora\/ufficiale-calhanoglu-non-convocato-turchia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FCInter1908<\/a>) that Calhanoglu \u201chas been left out of the squad due to a right wrist injury sustained last night in the match against Bulgaria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/inter-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nerazzurri<\/a> star scored the opening goal from the spot in a 2-0 victory last night.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey sit second in Group E, three points below <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/spain-34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spain<\/a> but with a lower goal difference (+19 to +5).<\/p>\n<p>Calhanoglu will return to his club <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/inter-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inter<\/a> to begin treatment ahead of Sunday\u2019s Derby della Madonnina against Milan.<\/p>\n<p>TURIN, ITALY \u2013 SEPTEMBER 13: <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/hakan-calhanoglu-24999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hakan Calhanoglu<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/inter-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internazionale<\/a> celebrates scoring his team\u2019s first goal during the <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/serie-a-13\/fixtures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Serie A<\/a> match between Juventus FC and FC <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/inter-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internazionale<\/a> at on September 13, 2025 in Turin, Italy. (Photo by Valerio Pennicino\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Calhanoglu, 31, has collected six goals and three assists in 13 games across all competitions at a club level in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old is the <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/turkey-8425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Turkey<\/a> national team captain. He made his international debut under Faith Terim in June 2013 and has 22 goals in 102 international matches.<\/p>\n<p>His contract with <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/inter-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inter<\/a> expires in June 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Turkish Football Federation confirms that Inter star Hakan Calhanoglu will miss Tuesday\u2019s game against Spain due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-574291","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\/115559898917147994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574291","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=574291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}