{"id":72188,"date":"2026-04-20T10:55:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/us-goalkeeper-jonathan-klinsmann-breaks-neck-playing-for-cesena\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:55:54","slug":"us-goalkeeper-jonathan-klinsmann-breaks-neck-playing-for-cesena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/us-goalkeeper-jonathan-klinsmann-breaks-neck-playing-for-cesena\/","title":{"rendered":"US goalkeeper Jonathan Klinsmann breaks neck playing for Cesena"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Ex-US youth international injured in collision v Palermo<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Further tests with specialist to take place<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/31\/sign-up-for-the-world-behind-the-cup-a-newsletter-about-more-than-soccer\"><strong>Sign up for the World Behind The Cup newsletter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Goalkeeper Jonathan Klinsmann, the son of former Germany striker and US national team head coach J\u00fcrgen Klinsmann, is recovering from a broken neck sustained playing for second-tier Italian side Cesena on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The former US youth international, 29, was stretchered off the field in a neck brace after a collision with a Palermo player and taken to a hospital in the Sicilian capital.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/apr\/20\/jonathan-klinsmann-broken-neck-usmnt-cesena\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-US youth international injured in collision v Palermo Further tests with specialist to take place Sign up for the World Behind The Cup newsletter Goalkeeper Jonathan Klinsmann, the son of former Germany striker and US national team head coach J\u00fcrgen Klinsmann, is recovering from a broken neck sustained playing for second-tier Italian side Cesena on &#8230; <a title=\"US goalkeeper Jonathan Klinsmann breaks neck playing for Cesena\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/us-goalkeeper-jonathan-klinsmann-breaks-neck-playing-for-cesena\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US goalkeeper Jonathan Klinsmann breaks neck playing for Cesena\">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-72188","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\/72188","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=72188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}