{"id":143278,"date":"2026-06-06T15:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/blow-for-germany-as-youngster-lennart-karl-is-ruled-out\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T15:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:02:49","slug":"blow-for-germany-as-youngster-lennart-karl-is-ruled-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/blow-for-germany-as-youngster-lennart-karl-is-ruled-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Blow for Germany as youngster Lennart Karl is ruled out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Germany have suffered a major setback ahead of the World Cup after teenage forward Lennart Karl was ruled out with a muscle injury sustained during training.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old Bayern Munich player tore a muscle bundle in the team\u2019s final training session. Germany have named RB Leipzig midfielder Assan Ouedraogo as Karl\u2019s replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Julian Nagelsmann said the injury appeared serious, with Karl taken to hospital for further assessment.<\/p>\n<p>Nagelsmann also revealed that veteran goalkeeper Manuel Neuer will miss today\u2019s friendly against the United States but is expected to be fit for Germany\u2019s World Cup opener against Curacao on 14th June.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/blow-for-germany-as-youngster-lennart-karl-is-ruled-out\/\">Blow for Germany as youngster Lennart Karl is ruled out<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany have suffered a major setback ahead of the World Cup after teenage forward Lennart Karl was ruled out with a muscle injury sustained during training. The 18-year-old Bayern Munich player tore a muscle bundle in the team\u2019s final training session. Germany have named RB Leipzig midfielder Assan Ouedraogo as Karl\u2019s replacement. Head coach Julian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}