{"id":60024,"date":"2025-04-29T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/60024\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T11:00:10","slug":"rudigers-injury-puts-nations-league-final-four-participation-with-germany-in-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/60024\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00fcdiger&#8217;s injury puts Nations League Final Four participation with Germany in doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Rune Gjerulff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/runegjerulff\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:100%;color:#1da1f2;\" rel=\"noopener\">@runegjerulff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are doubts over whether Antonio R\u00fcdiger will be able to play for Germany in the UEFA Nations League Final Four tournament in June after undergoing knee surgery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/8929.jpg\" alt=\"Article image\"\/><\/p>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"zypor_creative_linktext\">Photo by Angel Martinez\/Getty Images<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid have confirmed that Antonio R\u00fcdiger has undergone surgery on his left knee.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sky Germany, the 32-year-old defender is expected to be sidelined for four to six weeks, while Spanish media estimates his recovery could take six to eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p>This injury casts doubt on R\u00fcdiger\u2019s participation in Germany&#8217;s UEFA Nations League Final Four tournament, but Sky reports that the defender remains hopeful he can recover in time.<\/p>\n<p>Even if fully fit, R\u00fcdiger would not have been able to play for Real Madrid again this season, as he is facing a lengthy suspension for throwing an object at the referee during his team\u2019s Copa del Rey final defeat to FC Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>Germany are scheduled to face Portugal in the Nations League semifinal on June 4.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Rune Gjerulff@runegjerulff There are doubts over whether Antonio R\u00fcdiger will be able to play for Germany in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-60024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114420909793566344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60024","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=60024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}