{"id":44766,"date":"2025-03-17T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=44766"},"modified":"2025-03-17T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:04:00","slug":"casado-and-martinez-ruled-out-of-spain-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/casado-and-martinez-ruled-out-of-spain-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Casado and Mart\u00ednez Ruled Out of Spain Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish Football Federation announced on Monday that midfielder Marc Casado and defender I\u00f1igo Mart\u00ednez will miss Spain\u2019s UEFA Nations League quarterfinals due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>The defending champions, Spain, will face the Netherlands in the first leg of the quarterfinals on Thursday, before hosting the return leg on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Casado sustained a right knee injury during the second half of Barcelona\u2019s 4-2 victory over Atl\u00e9tico Madrid in La Liga on Sunday. As a result, Spain\u2019s coach Luis de la Fuente has called up Bayer Leverkusen\u2019s \u00c1lex Garc\u00eda as his replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mart\u00ednez, also a Barcelona player, has been dealing with a right knee issue despite completing the match against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid. De la Fuente has chosen Bournemouth\u2019s 21-year-old defender Dean Huijsen as his replacement in the squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish Football Federation announced on Monday that midfielder Marc Casado and defender I\u00f1igo Mart\u00ednez will miss Spain\u2019s UEFA Nations League quarterfinals due to injury. The defending champions, Spain, will face the Netherlands in the first leg of the quarterfinals on Thursday, before hosting the return leg on Sunday. Casado sustained a right knee injury &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44767,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44766\/revisions\/44767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}