{"id":74491,"date":"2026-06-05T11:57:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/chris-richardss-world-cup-in-doubt-as-ankle-injury-rules-usmnt-defender-out-for-germany-friendly\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:57:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:57:44","slug":"chris-richardss-world-cup-in-doubt-as-ankle-injury-rules-usmnt-defender-out-for-germany-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/chris-richardss-world-cup-in-doubt-as-ankle-injury-rules-usmnt-defender-out-for-germany-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Richards\u2019s World Cup in doubt as ankle injury rules USMNT defender out for Germany friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Pochettino \u2018not happy\u2019 with Palace\u2019s injury assessment<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Richards missed Conference League final<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/world-cup-2026\">Predict your World Cup bracket<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jun\/04\/world-cup-2026-complete-player-guide\">Complete player guide<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chris Richards will not take part in the United States\u2019 final World Cup tune-up friendly against Germany, head coach Mauricio Pochettino said in Friday\u2019s pre-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>While Pochettino awaits further assessments, the defender\u2019s status for the World Cup is decidedly in doubt.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/05\/chris-richards-injury-status-world-cup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pochettino \u2018not happy\u2019 with Palace\u2019s injury assessment Richards missed Conference League final Predict your World Cup bracket | Complete player guide Chris Richards will not take part in the United States\u2019 final World Cup tune-up friendly against Germany, head coach Mauricio Pochettino said in Friday\u2019s pre-match press conference. While Pochettino awaits further assessments, the defender\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Chris Richards\u2019s World Cup in doubt as ankle injury rules USMNT defender out for Germany friendly\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/chris-richardss-world-cup-in-doubt-as-ankle-injury-rules-usmnt-defender-out-for-germany-friendly\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Chris Richards\u2019s World Cup in doubt as ankle injury rules USMNT defender out for Germany friendly\">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-74491","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\/74491","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=74491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}