{"id":460297,"date":"2023-09-23T16:01:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T12:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=460297"},"modified":"2023-09-23T16:04:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T12:04:04","slug":"france-captain-dupont-undergoes-facial-surgery","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/france-captain-dupont-undergoes-facial-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"France captain Dupont undergoes facial surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France rugby team captain Antoine Dupont has undergone facial surgery and will return to his World Cup squad to recover, the French federation (FFR) said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>As of now there is no definite timeline for when the scrumhalf might return to the field.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">\ud83d\udd34\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 RUGBY : Antoine Dupont a \u00e9t\u00e9 op\u00e9r\u00e9 avec succ\u00e8s, le staff de l\u2019\u00e9quipe de France annonce une reprise progressive \ud83d\udcaa\ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FRAvNAM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FRAvNAM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RWC2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RWC2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FRANAM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FRANAM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/XVdeFrance?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#XVdeFrance<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UnisPourUnReve?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UnisPourUnReve<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rugbyworldcup2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#rugbyworldcup2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dupont?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Dupont<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UTFKlvapwc\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/UTFKlvapwc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 &#8211; Le Direct Info \ud83d\udd34 (@LeDirectInfo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeDirectInfo\/status\/1705474424302874818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old sustained the injury in Thursday&#8217;s 96-0 record win against Namibia when he clashed head-to-head with opposing captain Johan Deysel, whose initial yellow card was upgraded to a red.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following his injury sustained during the France-Namibia match, Antoine Dupont underwent surgery at Toulouse&#8217;s CHU Purpan on 22 September at around 11 p.m.,&#8221; the federation said in an official statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a few days&#8217; time, he will be able to return to the French team as part of a gradual sporting recovery under medical supervision.&#8221; France next face Italy on October 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France rugby team captain Antoine Dupont has undergone facial surgery and will return to his World Cup squad to recover, the French federation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":460314,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21426],"news_category":[20810,14084],"gn_keywords":[21427],"acf":{"announce":"It is unknown how long he will recover from the injury ","video":["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\/460297"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/460297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460330,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/460297\/revisions\/460330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460297"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=460297"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=460297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}