{"id":8358,"date":"2026-06-11T19:31:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=8358"},"modified":"2026-06-11T19:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:31:40","slug":"wataru-endo-withdraws-from-japans-world-cup-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=8358","title":{"rendered":"Wataru Endo withdraws from Japan&#8217;s World Cup squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Endo had hoped to represent his nation as captain at this summer\u2019s tournament, following a period of recovery from a foot injury he sustained while in action for Liverpool in February.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old was called up by Japan initially but has now pulled out of the tournament, it was announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince my injury, I\u2019ve done everything I possibly could up to this point, so I have no regrets whatsoever,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Endo retires from Japan duty having accumulated 73 caps in total, scoring four goals in the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom here on, I\u2019ll be cheering for the Japan national team as one of the fans,\u201d added Endo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Endo had hoped to represent his nation as captain at this summer\u2019s tournament, following a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}