{"id":394526,"date":"2022-11-09T11:10:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T16:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394526"},"modified":"2022-11-11T13:02:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T18:02:51","slug":"england-defender-james-to-miss-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/england-defender-james-to-miss-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"England defender James to miss World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__full_width__ekUdw body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">England defender Reece James confirmed on Wednesday he will not be a part of the England team at the World Cup in Qatar due to a knee injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VHkxLenJhH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VHkxLenJhH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Reece James (@ReeceJames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReeceJames\/status\/1590326978619789313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Chelsea&#8217;s right back James sustained the injury on Oct. 11 against AC Milan in the Champions League.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The 22-year-old James, who has 15 caps, said he was &#8220;devastated&#8221; to miss the cut from Southgate&#8217;s 26-man squad for the tournament, which is due to be announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The minute I injured my knee, I knew the turn around to make the World Cup would be tight, but I always felt it was possible,&#8221; James said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve worked harder than I ever thought I could to give myself the best chance of going and I truly believed I could help the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I appreciate there was risk on both sides, but it was one I was willing to take. Good luck to the boys. I&#8217;ll be back soon. Stay safe and sending love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City&#8217;s Kyle Walker, who has fulfilled both the right-sided centre back role and wing-back position for England, has not played since October since undergoing groin surgery while midfielder Kalvin Phillips is also in a race to be fit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England defender Reece James confirmed on Wednesday he will not be a part of the England team at the World Cup in Qatar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394527,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,16773],"news_category":[14235,136,14236,16671],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Chelsea right back suffered knee injury against Milan in the Champions League","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394526"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394526"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}