{"id":3183,"date":"2026-08-26T04:19:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2026-08-26T04:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:19:03","slug":"modric-suffers-a-double-cheekbone-fracture-world-cup-with-a-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=3183","title":{"rendered":"Modric suffers a double cheekbone fracture: World Cup with a mask?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\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","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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5155,41,3004,5156,5157,37,2860,40],"class_list":["post-3183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-cheekbone","tag-cup","tag-double","tag-fracture","tag-mask","tag-modric","tag-suffers","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}