{"id":335825,"date":"2022-11-20T00:16:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T00:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=335825"},"modified":"2022-11-30T00:05:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T00:05:04","slug":"karim-benzema-ruled-out-of-world-cup-after-training-injury-in-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/karim-benzema-ruled-out-of-world-cup-after-training-injury-in-qatar","title":{"rendered":"Karim Benzema Ruled Out Of World Cup After Training Injury in Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France head coach Didier Deschamps said: &#8220;I am extremely sad for Karim who made this World Cup a major goal.&#8221; View the original article to see embedded media. France forward Karim Benzema will not play at the 2022 FIFA World Cup after suffering an injury in training. Benzema had been one of the biggest names set to feature at the tournament in Qatar, having won the 2022 Ballon d&#8217;Or . He was also named the Best Men&#8217;s Player of the Year at the Globe Soccer Awards earlier this week. The 34-year-old had travelled to Qatar as part of France&#8217;s 25-man squad but on Saturday, less than 24 hours before the World Cup&#8217;s opening game, it was announced that he would not be able to take part after suffering a thigh injury in training. A statement issued by the French Football Federation read: &#8220;Karim Benzema was forced to cut short the group training session after feeling pain in the quadriceps of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France head coach Didier Deschamps said: &#8220;I am extremely sad for Karim who made this World Cup a major goal.&#8221;<\/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":[1,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335825","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=335825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}