{"id":11559,"date":"2025-06-20T10:48:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/azcona-out-of-gold-cup-due-to-injury-dominican-republic-national-team-loses-forward\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:48:27","slug":"azcona-out-of-gold-cup-due-to-injury-dominican-republic-national-team-loses-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/azcona-out-of-gold-cup-due-to-injury-dominican-republic-national-team-loses-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Azcona Out of Gold Cup Due to Injury: Dominican Republic National Team Loses Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Edison Azcona Withdraws from the 2025 Gold Cup Due to Injury<\/h2>\n\n\nSanto Domingo \u2013 The Dominican Football Federation (FEDOFUTBOL) announced the withdrawal of forward Edison Azcona from the National Team&#8217;s concentration for the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup. The decision was made due to a muscle injury suffered in his left leg.\n\nDuring the afternoon training on Tuesday, June 17, Azcona experienced a sharp pain in his left quadriceps while performing acceleration and deceleration exercises. The selection&#8217;s medical team issued a report detailing the situation.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The soccer player reported a sudden pain accompanied by a pulling sensation in the left quadriceps muscle, which made it impossible for him to continue practicing. A grade 1-2 muscle injury has been diagnosed, requiring immediate treatment and initial rest.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Medical team report<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nAs a result of the injury, Edison Azcona will return to his club to begin a rehabilitation and physiotherapy program, supervised by the team doctors. FEDOFUTBOL and the coaching staff expressed their wishes for a speedy recovery for the player.\n\nThe national team coach regretted Azcona&#8217;s absence, but emphasized the importance of the player&#8217;s health. In addition, it was announced that the name of the player who will take his place in the call-up will be announced soon.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edison Azcona Withdraws from the 2025 Gold Cup Due to Injury Santo Domingo \u2013 The Dominican Football Federation (FEDOFUTBOL) announced the withdrawal of forward Edison Azcona from the National Team&#8217;s concentration for the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup. The decision was made due to a muscle injury suffered in his left leg. During the afternoon training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[4429,2123,2419,290],"class_list":{"0":"post-11559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-edison-azcona","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-gold-cup","11":"tag-injury"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}