{"id":5177,"date":"2014-03-10T16:40:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T16:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=5177"},"modified":"2014-03-10T17:36:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T17:36:31","slug":"strootman-out-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=5177","title":{"rendered":"Strootman out of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5179\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/KevinStrootman140310InjuredD300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5179\" alt=\"Kevin Strootman\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/KevinStrootman140310InjuredD300-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/KevinStrootman140310InjuredD300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/KevinStrootman140310InjuredD300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/KevinStrootman140310InjuredD300-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Strootman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dutch midfielder Kevin Strootman will miss the World Cup in Brazil in June after tearing cartilage in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can just imagine how disappointed he must be,&#8221; coach Louis van Gaal told Dutch media after Strootman was injured in AS Roma&#8217;s 1-0 defeat at Napoli in Serie A on Sunday. &#8220;Kevin was in good form.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the national side it is a huge blow. Kevin made a huge contribution to our qualification for the World Cup, he never let us down and now his dreams have died.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Strootman will be sidelined for at least six months, according to Dutch media. He tried to play on after sustaining the injury but was eventually carried off on a stretcher.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder was also taken off before halftime in Wednesday&#8217;s 2-0 friendly international defeat by France in Paris after hurting his right knee.<\/p>\n<p>Last year Van Gaal said Strootman, captain Robin van Persie and winger Arjen Robben were three players guaranteed a place in his World Cup squad.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch have been drawn in Group B with champions Spain, Australia and Chile at the finals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Credit: supersport.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch midfielder Kevin Strootman will miss the World Cup in Brazil in June after tearing cartilage in his left knee. &#8220;I can just imagine how disappointed he must be,&#8221; coach Louis van Gaal told Dutch media after Strootman was injured in AS Roma&#8217;s 1-0 defeat at Napoli in Serie A on Sunday. &#8220;Kevin was in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5179,"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":[29,3],"class_list":["post-5177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}