{"id":45728,"date":"2022-05-09T18:55:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T01:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=45728"},"modified":"2022-05-09T19:06:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T02:06:28","slug":"qatar-2022-usa-defender-robinson-set-to-miss-wc-due-to-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/05\/09\/qatar-2022-usa-defender-robinson-set-to-miss-wc-due-to-injury-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar 2022: USA defender Robinson set to miss WC due to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sportsmax.tv &#8211; ATLANTA, <strong>United States centre-back Miles Robinson is a major doubt for the World Cup after rupturing the Achilles tendon in his left leg.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 25-year-old sustained the non-contact injury in the 14th minute of Atlanta United&#8217;s 4-1 MLS win over Chicago Fire on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robinson, who has been capped 21 times by USA, slammed the turf in frustration and was stretchered off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Atlanta confirmed on Monday that the defender will undergo surgery to rectify the damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While no timeframe has been given for Robinson&#8217;s return, he is not likely to play again before Qatar 2022, which runs from November 21 until December 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had become a regular for USA alongside Walker Zimmerman in their World Cup qualifying campaign, but coach Gregg Berhalter may now be forced to rethink his plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Berhalter&#8217;s side have been drawn in a group alongside England, Iran and one of Scotland, Ukraine or Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sportsmax.tv &#8211; ATLANTA, United States centre-back Miles Robinson is a major doubt for the World&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":45731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":8197,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45736,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45728\/revisions\/45736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}