{"id":65065,"date":"2025-04-29T14:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65065"},"modified":"2025-04-29T14:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:20:04","slug":"rudiger-out-of-season-after-knee-surgery-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/29\/rudiger-out-of-season-after-knee-surgery-blow\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00fcdiger Out of Season After Knee Surgery Blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid defender Antonio R\u00fcdiger will miss the rest of the season after undergoing surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee, dealing a heavy blow to the club&#8217;s LaLiga title hopes and his national team ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old German international had the procedure on Tuesday under the care of Dr. Manuel Leyes, with the club confirming a two-month recovery period.<\/p>\n<p>This rules him out of Madrid\u2019s final five league matches and throws his participation in the upcoming Club World Cup and Nations League into doubt.<\/p>\n<p>R\u00fcdiger sustained the injury during last weekend\u2019s heated Copa del Rey final loss to rivals Barcelona. Despite playing through intense pain, he was later sent off for throwing an object in protest.<\/p>\n<p>In a heartfelt apology, he admitted his actions were unjustified and revealed he had been struggling with knee pain for over seven months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I am finally pain free,\u201d R\u00fcdiger posted on Instagram. \u201cThe surgery went well. I will take it one week at a time and fight to return for the Club World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His absence worsens Real Madrid\u2019s injury crisis, with \u00c9der Milit\u00e3o, Dani Carvajal, Ferland Mendy, and Eduardo Camavinga also sidelined.<\/p>\n<p>Madrid, currently trailing Barcelona by four points, faces Celta Vigo next before a decisive El Cl\u00e1sico showdown.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish football federation is still reviewing disciplinary action against R\u00fcdiger, but with his recovery already underway, any suspension may have little effect this term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Real Madrid defender Antonio R\u00fcdiger will miss the rest of the season after undergoing surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee, dealing a heavy blow to the club&#8217;s LaLiga title hopes and his national team ambitions. The 32-year-old German international had the procedure on Tuesday under the care of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65067,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65065\/revisions\/65067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}