{"id":18803,"date":"2014-05-15T14:19:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T14:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=18803"},"modified":"2014-05-15T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T14:19:18","slug":"thiago-alcantara-spain-midfielder-to-miss-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=18803","title":{"rendered":"Thiago Alcantara: Spain midfielder to miss World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" itemprop=\"description\">Bayern Munich midfielder Thiago Alcantara has been ruled out of Spain&#8217;s World Cup squad because of a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old was named in\u00a0<a title=\"Link to BBC's article about Spain's World Cup squad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/football\/27394287\">Spain&#8217;s provisional squad on Monday<\/a>but will require surgery after tearing a knee ligament this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is bitter for Thiago and I feel sorry for him,&#8221; said Bayern chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.<\/p>\n<p>Holders Spain are in Group B along with Netherlands, Chile and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest setback for Thiago, who has missed the latter part of the season with injury. He will also miss the German Cup final against Borussia Dortmund on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Rummenigge said: &#8220;A young man who wanted to come back at the World Cup, and suddenly his dreams are burst.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will take care of him now and make sure he is fit at the start of the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thiago has won five caps for Spain and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/football\/22944206\">scored a hat-trick last summer<\/a>\u00a0as the Under-21s beat Italy to win the European Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayern Munich midfielder Thiago Alcantara has been ruled out of Spain&#8217;s World Cup squad because of a knee injury. The 23-year-old was named in\u00a0Spain&#8217;s provisional squad on Mondaybut will require surgery after tearing a knee ligament this week. &#8220;This is bitter for Thiago and I feel sorry for him,&#8221; said Bayern chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,726,3,624,654],"class_list":["post-18803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-george-weah","tag-ghana-news","tag-rapper-nelly","tag-upsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}