{"id":3407,"date":"2026-04-07T17:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=3407"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:48:06","slug":"usa-forward-patrick-agyemang-will-miss-2026-world-cup-with-achilles-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=3407","title":{"rendered":"USA Forward Patrick Agyemang Will Miss 2026 World Cup With Achilles Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6>United States Men&#8217;s National Team forward Patrick Agyemang will miss his home World Cup after suffering a serious Achilles tendon injury. Agyemang plays internationally for Derby, and injured his Achilles in their match on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6>Agyemang was visibly emotional when he was stretchered off, with his right leg strapped, after landing awkwardly in Derby\u2019s 2-0 victory over Stoke in the second-tier English Championship on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6>Derby confirmed on Tuesday that the striker would miss soccer\u2019s biggest tournament, which is being held in the United States, Canada and Mexico in June and July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6>&#8220;As a result of this injury, Patrick will unfortunately miss this summer\u2019s FIFA World Cup,&#8221; Derby said in a statement. &#8220;At this stage it would be wrong to put a timeline on his recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6><i><strong>[World Cup Title Favorites, Sleepers, Debut Teams? <\/strong><\/i><i><strong>All 48 Teams By Tiers<\/strong><\/i><i><strong>]<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6>The club added that Agyemang would undergo more tests later on Tuesday and &#8220;further updates will be communicated in due course,&#8221; once the extent of the injury and a potential recovery timeline are known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6>Agyemang has helped Derby into contention for promotion to the Premier League thanks to a team-leading 10 goals since arriving last summer from Charlotte in Major League Soccer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6>During the recent international break, he came off the bench for the United States and scored in a loss against Belgium and also got some minutes against Portugal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-d515c0f6><i>The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY United States Men&#8217;s National Team forward Patrick Agyemang will miss his home World Cup after suffering a serious Achilles tendon injury. Agyemang plays internationally for Derby, and injured his Achilles in their match on Monday. Agyemang was visibly emotional when he was stretchered off, with his right leg strapped, after landing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}