{"id":2816475,"date":"2026-04-19T18:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2816475\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:25:27","slug":"gnabry-injury-a-bitter-blow-for-germany-ahead-of-world-cup-says-nagelsmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2816475\/","title":{"rendered":"Gnabry injury a bitter blow for Germany ahead of World Cup, says Nagelsmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Nagelsmann described Serge Gnabry&#8217;s injury as &#8220;bitter news&#8221; for Germany ahead of their 2026 World Cup campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Gnabry has enjoyed a fine campaign for Bayern Munich, who could seal the Bundesliga title on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He has scored 10 goals and provided 12 assists across all competitions. Among Bayern&#8217;s squad, only Harry Kane (56), Michael Olise (43) and Luis Diaz (39) have recorded more direct goal involvements than Gnabry&#8217;s 22.<\/p>\n<p>However, on Saturday, Bayern confirmed Gnabry had suffered an adductor injury in training, and he is now set to miss an extended period of time.<\/p>\n<p>It could rule Gnabry out for not only the rest of Bayern&#8217;s campaign, but also the World Cup, which starts on June 11.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is very bitter news, especially at this stage of the season, with such big and important games coming up,&#8221; said Germany boss Nagelsmann.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were in touch and I told him that everyone in the national team is behind him as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will all support him as best we can so that he can get back on the pitch as quickly as possible. Get well soon, Serge!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Germany face Finland and the United States in pre-tournament friendlies before taking on Curacao, Ivory Coast and Ecuador in World Cup Group E.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Nagelsmann described Serge Gnabry&#8217;s injury as &#8220;bitter news&#8221; for Germany ahead of thei<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2816477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[784994],"tags":[38674,5326],"class_list":{"0":"post-2816475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-germany","9":"tag-5326"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2816475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2816477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}