{"id":335686,"date":"2022-11-19T22:57:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T22:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=335686"},"modified":"2022-11-20T04:51:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T04:51:58","slug":"france-suffer-huge-world-cup-blow-with-karim-benzema-ruled-out-through-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/france-suffer-huge-world-cup-blow-with-karim-benzema-ruled-out-through-injury","title":{"rendered":"France suffer huge World Cup blow with Karim Benzema ruled out through injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ballon d&#8217;Or winner Karim Benzema has been ruled out of France&#8217;s World Cup campaign after suffering a thigh injury.The Real Madrid striker was honoured last month for his brilliant season in 2021\/22, when he won a fifth Champions League title with the Spanish giants.Benzema would have been one of the most high-profile players for holders France in Qatar but it was revealed on Saturday evening that he will play no part in the tournament.A message on the team&#8217;s official Twitter feed read: &#8220;Karim @Benzema has pulled out of the World Cup with a thigh injury. The whole team shares Karim&#8217;s disappointment and wishes him a speedy recovery.&#8221;France, who could call up a replacement, take on Australia in their opening match on Tuesday before other group games against Denmark and Tunisia.The best videos delivered dailyWatch the stories that matter, right from your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballon d&#8217;Or winner Karim Benzema has been ruled out of France&#8217;s World Cup campaign after suffering a thigh injury. The Real Madrid striker was honoured last month for his brilliant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champions-league","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}