{"id":294299,"date":"2025-10-11T09:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/294299\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T09:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:25:13","slug":"franco-mastantuono-will-return-to-madrid-due-to-muscle-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/294299\/","title":{"rendered":"Franco Mastantuono will return to Madrid due to muscle overload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Real Madrid player Franco Mastantuono will not feature for Argentina\u2019s national team this international break due to a muscle strain, it was announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Lionel Scaloni initially selected Mastantuono to play matches against Venezuela and Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Right before Argentina\u2019s 1-0 win over Venezuela, it was announced that the player would head back to Madrid and would not take part in either of the two games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Argentina\u2019s official statement read: \u201cFranco Mastantuono will be out for the remainder of the tour due to a muscle overload in his left thigh. Meanwhile, captain Lionel Messi will not be available for Friday\u2019s match.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This comes off as a slightly worrying sign for Xabi Alonso and Real Madrid, but it is also good that he will get some rest for the upcoming matches for Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mastantuono will hope to recover in time for Real Madrid\u2019s next game, a cross-city trip to Getafe next Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid player Franco Mastantuono will not feature for Argentina\u2019s national team this international break due to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":294300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[150527,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-294299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-real-madrid-cf-players","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115354817209928918","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}