{"id":241358,"date":"2026-04-27T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/modric-suffers-a-double-cheekbone-fracture-world-cup-with-a-mask\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:00:14","slug":"modric-suffers-a-double-cheekbone-fracture-world-cup-with-a-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/modric-suffers-a-double-cheekbone-fracture-world-cup-with-a-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Modric suffers a double cheekbone fracture: World Cup with a mask?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\"><span class=\"capital-letter\">M<\/span><strong>odric will miss the rest of the Serie A season<\/strong> after the blow he received to his face in the match against Juventus. This is according to Croatian media outlet <strong>Sportske Novosti<\/strong>: &#8220;Luka Modric has a double cheekbone fracture and his season in Milan is over&#8221;.<span\/><\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\">The injury report <strong>is frightening ahead of the World Cup<\/strong>, but the midfielder&#8217;s compatriots are optimistic: &#8220;The captain will play there, probably with a protective mask. It is still unknown what kind of recovery awaits him: surgery or conservative treatment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\">Modric had to be substituted in the match against Juve <strong>after taking a tremendous blow to the face from Locatelli that left him K.O.<\/strong> The Croatian left the field with an ice pack on his face<span\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/football\/serie-a\/2026\/04\/27\/69ef6b1f46163f8d428b4587.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modric will miss the rest of the Serie A season after the blow he received to his face in the match against Juventus. This is according to Croatian media outlet Sportske Novosti: &#8220;Luka Modric has a double cheekbone fracture and his season in Milan is over&#8221;. The injury report is frightening ahead of the World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6808],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-241358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}