{"id":67102,"date":"2025-06-04T05:19:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67102"},"modified":"2025-06-04T05:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:19:38","slug":"courtois-to-miss-club-world-cup-due-to-back-injury-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/04\/courtois-to-miss-club-world-cup-due-to-back-injury-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtois to Miss Club World Cup Due to Back Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has been ruled out of this month\u2019s FIFA Club World Cup due to a back injury.<\/p>\n<p>In an official statement, the club confirmed that the Belgian shot-stopper has been diagnosed with sacroiliitis, an inflammation of the sacroiliac joints located between the lower back and pelvis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe medical staff of Real Madrid and the Royal Belgian Football Association have discussed Thibaut Courtois\u2019 back problems intensively in recent weeks,\u201d the Belgian FA said in a separate statement. \u201cBoth medical teams have concluded that he is unfit for the upcoming internationals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid are set to begin their Club World Cup campaign on June 18 in Miami, facing Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Hilal in their opening match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has been ruled out of this month\u2019s FIFA Club World Cup due to a back injury. In an official statement, the club confirmed that the Belgian shot-stopper has been diagnosed with sacroiliitis, an inflammation of the sacroiliac joints located between the lower back and pelvis. \u201cThe medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67102","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67238,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67102\/revisions\/67238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}