{"id":3689,"date":"2026-04-28T05:52:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=3689"},"modified":"2026-04-28T05:52:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:52:26","slug":"it-tears-my-heart-no-world-cup-for-former-parisian-xavi-simons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=3689","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt tears my heart\u201d\u2026 No World Cup for former Parisian Xavi Simons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div layout=\"desktop\">\n<p>Tottenham&#8217;s disastrous season continues. In the fight to stay in the Premier League, Spurs certainly won this weekend against bottom side Wolverhampton, but lost big: Dutch international attacking midfielder Xavi Simons will not play again for the season with the London club. Worse, he will also miss the World Cup with the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey say life can be cruel and today that\u2019s how I feel. My season comes to an abrupt end and I&#8217;m trying to make sense of it. Honestly, it breaks my heart, the 23-year-old wrote on social media on Sunday evening. All I wanted was to fight with my team and now I&#8217;m deprived of it just like I&#8217;m deprived of the World Cup. Representing my country this summer is over. \u00bb<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-placeholder u-placeholder-instagram\" data-vendor=\"instagram-RDffthKi\">\n<div class=\"p-xxl@xs border-color-grey-200 radius-l@xs cmp-placeholder u-hidden\">\n<p class=\"mb-m@xs text-l@xs\">By clicking on<span class=\"ml-xxs@xs font-weight-bold@xs\">\u201cI accept\u201d<\/span>you accept the deposit of cookies by external services and will thus have access to the content of our partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-xl@xs text-s@xs\">More information on the Cookie management policy page<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"mx-auto@xs flex@xs items-center@xs justify-center@xs gap-xxs@xs c-btn c-btn--primary cmp-button\">I accept<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The former Parisian, probably injured in the cruciate ligaments of his right knee, left the field limping on Saturday during Tottenham&#8217;s crucial victory against Wolverhampton (1-0) for remaining in the Premier League. Four games from the end of the season, Spurs are 18th in the English championship, two points from ensuring their survival.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham&#8217;s disastrous season continues. In the fight to stay in the Premier League, Spurs certainly won this weekend against bottom side Wolverhampton, but lost big: Dutch international attacking midfielder Xavi Simons will not play again for the season with the London club. Worse, he will also miss the World Cup with the Netherlands. \u201cThey say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}