{"id":14940,"date":"2025-11-10T11:35:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/tottenhams-kolo-muani-pulls-out-of-france-squad-due-to-jaw-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:20","slug":"tottenhams-kolo-muani-pulls-out-of-france-squad-due-to-jaw-injury","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/tottenhams-kolo-muani-pulls-out-of-france-squad-due-to-jaw-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham\u2019s Kolo Muani pulls out of France squad due to jaw injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementToProof\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Tottenham Hotspur striker Randal Kolo Muani has withdrawn from the France squad for this month\u2019s World Cup qualifiers after suffering a jaw injury in <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Saturday\u2019s 2-2<\/span><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\"> draw with Manchester United, the French Football Federation (FFF) said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kolo Muani was substituted at halftime and while Spurs manager Thomas Frank initially said the injury was \u201cnothing big\u201d French media reported on Sunday that scans showed the 26-year-old had suffered a jaw fracture.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe Tottenham Hotspur striker suffered an injury to his lower jaw on Saturday against Manchester United,\u201d the FFF said in a statement on Sunday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cAfter consulting with doctor Franck Le Gall, who had previously spoken with his Tottenham counterpart, Didier Deschamps confirmed that Kolo Muani would be withdrawing from the squad.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>RC Lens winger Florian Thauvin has been called in as a replacement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kolo Muani, who has nine goals in 31 appearances for France, had been called up for the first time since June after being left out of Deschamps\u2019 last two squads.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>France, who are also without injured Paris St Germain duo Desire Doue and Ousmane Dembele, top Group D with 10 points from four matches and host Ukraine at the Parc des Princes on Thursday, before visiting Azerbaijan three days later.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 2018 World Cup winners can seal qualification for the 2026 World Cup in North America with a win over Ukraine.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13218,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-14940","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kolo Muani was substituted at halftime.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Kolo Muani was substituted at halftime.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19385,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14940\/revisions\/19385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}