{"id":3973,"date":"2026-05-18T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=3973"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:21:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:21:34","slug":"spain-midfielder-fermin-lopez-to-miss-world-cup-after-fracturing-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=3973","title":{"rendered":"Spain Midfielder Ferm\u00edn L\u00f3pez To Miss World Cup After Fracturing Foot"},"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-a2155f14>Spain midfielder Ferm\u00edn L\u00f3pez is set to miss the World Cup because of a fracture on his right foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Barcelona said Monday the 23-year-old L\u00f3pez will need to undergo surgery to treat the injury sustained in the team&#8217;s Spanish league match on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>The club said &#8220;L\u00f3pez suffered a fracture to the fifth metatarsal bone in his right foot in the game against Betis. The player will undergo surgery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Barcelona did not give a time frame for Lop\u00e9z&#8217;s recovery but he was not expected to be fit in time for next month&#8217;s World Cup. Spain makes its debut against Cape Verde on June 15 in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>L\u00f3pez was in Spain&#8217;s squad that won the 2024 European Championship, as well as in the under-23 team that won the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. He scored six goals at the Olympics, including two in the final against host France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14><i>Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Spain midfielder Ferm\u00edn L\u00f3pez is set to miss the World Cup because of a fracture on his right foot. Barcelona said Monday the 23-year-old L\u00f3pez will need to undergo surgery to treat the injury sustained in the team&#8217;s Spanish league match on Sunday. The club said &#8220;L\u00f3pez suffered a fracture to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3973","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\/3973","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=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}