{"id":484510,"date":"2024-06-23T08:15:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T12:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484510"},"modified":"2024-06-23T08:15:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T12:15:31","slug":"mexico-captain-edson-suffers-injury-in-copa-america-opener","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mexico-captain-edson-suffers-injury-in-copa-america-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico captain Edson suffers injury in Copa America opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico captain Edson \u00c1lvarez will undergo tests in the upcoming days after leaving the pitch injured in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half of his team&#8217;s Copa Am\u00e9rica victory against Jamaica at Houston&#8217;s NRG Stadium.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hammer Edson Alvarez in tears as he leaves Copa America after half an hour of play after suffering suspected hamstring tear <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mWBrCWWzgU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/mWBrCWWzgU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; West Ham Football (@westhamfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/westhamfootball\/status\/1804799424649961647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After returning to defend during a counterattack from Jamaica, the West Ham player suddenly hit the ground in pain, clutching his left hamstring.<\/p>\n<p>Edson had to be helped off the pitch, visibly in a lot of pain, as things didn\u2019t look very optimistic about his chances to play again at the tournament after being on the pitch less than 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With our captain, we&#8217;re going to wait several days to give him an examination and know well what his injury is,&#8221; Mexico head coach Jaime &#8220;Jimmy&#8221; Lozano shared with the media after the win. &#8220;Without a doubt, as it is with any other footballer, the intention is not to take any chances. \u00c1lvarez felt something in his leg.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gerardo Arteaga scored the winning goal for Mexico in the 69<sup>th<\/sup> minute from the edge of the penalty area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico captain Edson \u00c1lvarez will undergo tests in the upcoming days after leaving the pitch injured in the 1st half of his team&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484511,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[23037,20835,19892],"news_category":[14236,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[23038,20836,19893],"acf":{"announce":"\u00c1lvarez forced off in tears in his nation\u2019s victory.","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\/484510"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484512,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484510\/revisions\/484512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484510"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484510"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}