{"id":68448,"date":"2026-03-08T14:56:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/usmnts-sergino-dest-comes-off-with-apparent-hamstring-injury-in-psv-win\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:56:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:56:50","slug":"usmnts-sergino-dest-comes-off-with-apparent-hamstring-injury-in-psv-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/usmnts-sergino-dest-comes-off-with-apparent-hamstring-injury-in-psv-win\/","title":{"rendered":"USMNT\u2019s Sergi\u00f1o Dest comes off with apparent hamstring injury in PSV win"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Right back suffered injury in 57th minute<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Dest projected to start for US at World Cup<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Likely to miss US friendlies v Belgium and Portugal<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>United States defender Sergi\u00f1o Dest limped off with an apparent hamstring injury during PSV Eindhoven\u2019s 2-1 win over AZ Alkmaar in the Dutch league on Saturday, putting him in doubt for the USMNT\u2019s upcoming friendlies against Belgium and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Dest grabbed his left hamstring and screamed in pain while covering his eyes after tumbling in his own penalty area chasing Alkmaar\u2019s Wouter Goes in the second half. The full-back was substituted in the 57th minute, leaving the field with the assistance of two medical staff, unable to put weight on his left leg.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/08\/sergino-dest-usmnt-injury-psv\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right back suffered injury in 57th minute Dest projected to start for US at World Cup Likely to miss US friendlies v Belgium and Portugal United States defender Sergi\u00f1o Dest limped off with an apparent hamstring injury during PSV Eindhoven\u2019s 2-1 win over AZ Alkmaar in the Dutch league on Saturday, putting him in doubt &#8230; <a title=\"USMNT\u2019s Sergi\u00f1o Dest comes off with apparent hamstring injury in PSV win\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/usmnts-sergino-dest-comes-off-with-apparent-hamstring-injury-in-psv-win\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USMNT\u2019s Sergi\u00f1o Dest comes off with apparent hamstring injury in PSV win\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}