{"id":116401,"date":"2026-04-13T04:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/romero-in-tears-injury-worries-argentina-ahead-of-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T04:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:49:19","slug":"romero-in-tears-injury-worries-argentina-ahead-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/romero-in-tears-injury-worries-argentina-ahead-of-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Romero, in tears: Injury worries Argentina ahead of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cristian Romero Leaves the Field Injured in Tottenham Defeat<\/h2>\n\n\nTottenham defender Cristian Romero left the field in tears after suffering an injury during his team&#8217;s 1-0 defeat to Sunderland in the Premier League.\n\nThe Argentinian international limped off after colliding with Tottenham goalkeeper Anton\u00edn Kinsky in the second half of the match played at the Stadium of Light.\n\nThe nature of the injury was not immediately determined, but Romero, 27, was unable to continue and showed obvious signs of distress as he went to the sidelines. Although he was able to leave the field without assistance and did not need a stretcher, his teammates consoled him as he walked away.\n\nRomero&#8217;s injury raises concerns for Argentina ahead of the World Cup, which begins in June, as he is a key player in coach Lionel Scaloni&#8217;s scheme.\n\nKinsky was able to continue after being bandaged on the head.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s very bad that Romero got injured, but I don&#8217;t know the severity of the injury. We have to see in the next few days. I hope it&#8217;s not a major problem for us because he is a crucial player. We need him to finish the season and achieve our goal.<\/p><cite>Roberto De Zerbi, Tottenham coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe defeat left Tottenham in the relegation zone, in 18th place, two points behind West Ham, who are in 17th place, with six games remaining in the season.\n\nArgentina will begin its participation in the World Cup in Group J on June 16 against Algeria at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristian Romero Leaves the Field Injured in Tottenham Defeat Tottenham defender Cristian Romero left the field in tears after suffering an injury during his team&#8217;s 1-0 defeat to Sunderland in the Premier League. The Argentinian international limped off after colliding with Tottenham goalkeeper Anton\u00edn Kinsky in the second half of the match played at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[7201,290,949,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-116401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-cristian-romero","9":"tag-injury","10":"tag-tottenham","11":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116401","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=116401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}