United States men’s national team forward Patrick Agyemang will miss his home World Cup after suffering a serious Achilles tendon injury. Agyemang plays internationally for Derby, and injured his Achilles in their match on Monday.
Agyemang was visibly emotional when he was stretchered off, with his right leg strapped, after landing awkwardly in Derby’s 2-0 victory over Stoke in the second-tier English Championship on Monday.
Derby confirmed on Tuesday that the striker would miss soccer’s biggest tournament, which is being held in the United States, Canada and Mexico in June and July.
“As a result of this injury, Patrick will unfortunately miss this summer’s FIFA World Cup,” Derby said in a statement. “At this stage it would be wrong to put a timeline on his recovery.”
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The membership added that Agyemang would endure extra checks in a while Tuesday and “additional updates can be communicated sooner or later,” as soon as the extent of the harm and a possible restoration timeline are identified.
Agyemang has helped Derby into competition for promotion to the Premier League due to a team-leading 10 objectives since arriving final summer time from Charlotte in Main League Soccer.
In the course of the current worldwide break, he got here off the bench for america and scored in a loss towards Belgium and in addition obtained some minutes towards Portugal.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
