{"id":55451,"date":"2025-10-08T18:07:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=55451"},"modified":"2025-10-08T18:07:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:07:45","slug":"defender-huijsen-ruled-out-of-spain-squad-with-muscle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/defender-huijsen-ruled-out-of-spain-squad-with-muscle-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Defender Huijsen Ruled Out of Spain Squad with Muscle Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain defender Dean Huijsen has been ruled out of their upcoming 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Georgia and Bulgaria due to a muscle injury, with Aymeric Laporte called up as his replacement, the Spanish FA (RFEF) said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Huijsen, 20, arrived at the national team&#8217;s training camp on Monday evening but did not train on Tuesday after reporting symptoms of muscle fatigue,&#8221; the RFEF said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Medical examinations conducted on Wednesday confirmed the muscle injury, of which Real Madrid has been informed, prompting his withdrawal from the squad. We wish him a swift recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spain are set to face Georgia in Elche on Saturday before hosting Bulgaria in Valladolid on Tuesday as they aim to secure their place in the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The absence of youngster Huijsen, who has impressed at Real Madrid under coach Xabi Alonso following a 50 million pound close-season transfer from Bournemouth, is a setback for Spain manager Luis de la Fuente.<\/p>\n<p>However, Athletic Bilbao defender Laporte, 31, brings vital experience as he was a key player in Spain&#8217;s European Championship-winning squad last year.<\/p>\n<p>Spain currently top Group E of European qualifying with six points from two matches, with Georgia and T\u00fcrkiye trailing by three points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain defender Dean Huijsen has been ruled out of their upcoming 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Georgia and Bulgaria due to a muscle injury, with Aymeric Laporte called up as his replacement, the Spanish FA (RFEF) said on Wednesday. &#8220;Huijsen, 20, arrived at the national team&#8217;s training camp on Monday evening but did not train &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55451","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\/55451","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=55451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55453,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55451\/revisions\/55453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}