{"id":73834,"date":"2026-05-21T12:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/usmnts-chris-richards-has-torn-ligaments-in-ankle-putting-world-cup-status-in-doubt\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:02:50","slug":"usmnts-chris-richards-has-torn-ligaments-in-ankle-putting-world-cup-status-in-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/usmnts-chris-richards-has-torn-ligaments-in-ankle-putting-world-cup-status-in-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"USMNT\u2019s Chris Richards has torn ligaments in ankle, putting World Cup status in doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Crystal Palace center-back will miss season finale<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>26-year-old uncertain for Conference League final<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Richards has been vital to Pochettino\u2019s US plans<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US national team center-back Chris Richards has \u201ctwo torn ligaments in his ankle\u201d, Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner said on Thursday, casting uncertainty on the stalwart defender\u2019s status for this summer\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The club had said Richards \u201cwas in discomfort\u201d late in last weekend\u2019s match against Brentford, which he entered in the 61st minute.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/may\/21\/chris-richards-ankle-injury-usmnt-world-cup-crystal-palace\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crystal Palace center-back will miss season finale 26-year-old uncertain for Conference League final Richards has been vital to Pochettino\u2019s US plans US national team center-back Chris Richards has \u201ctwo torn ligaments in his ankle\u201d, Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner said on Thursday, casting uncertainty on the stalwart defender\u2019s status for this summer\u2019s World Cup. The &#8230; <a title=\"USMNT\u2019s Chris Richards has torn ligaments in ankle, putting World Cup status in doubt\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/usmnts-chris-richards-has-torn-ligaments-in-ankle-putting-world-cup-status-in-doubt\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USMNT\u2019s Chris Richards has torn ligaments in ankle, putting World Cup status in doubt\">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-73834","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\/73834","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=73834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}