ARLINGTON, Texas — United States worldwide ahead Haji Wright has been dominated out for the rest of the Concacaf Gold Cup with an Achilles harm, U.S. Soccer introduced on Saturday.
In an announcement, the united states added that Wright “will return to Coventry Metropolis for additional analysis and remedy.” Event guidelines stipulate that Wright cannot be changed on the U.S. roster.
“At all times unhappy to see a participant go away, as a result of the group was excellent, and he is an excellent man, and provides excellent high quality to the group, [a] totally different choice,” USMNT coach Mauricio Pochettino informed reporters at a information convention shortly after the announcement.
“He is a participant that may play in several positions within the assault. Sure, unhappy state of affairs, unhappy for him, unhappy for the staff, however I feel we have to prioritize his course of to restoration.”
Wright, 27, scored instead within the USMNT’s 5-0 tournament-opening win over Trinidad and Tobago, however he was held out of coaching within the run-up to the match in opposition to Saudi Arabia and was left off the game-day roster.
After the match, Pochettino mentioned that an announcement concerning Wright’s standing can be made within the coming days.
Wright was seen together with his teammates getting off the bus previous to Saturday’s coaching session however was restricted to health club work, in line with a staff spokesperson.
“He already arrived with some issues in his Achilles, after which we can’t repair the issue; he elevated [his] ache,” Pochettino added Saturday. “That’s the reason that [this] is the choice that we take.”
The harm is a tricky blow for Wright, who was coming off a strong season with Coventry Metropolis in England’s second-tier Championship, scoring 12 targets in 31 league and cup appearances.
He had additionally been hoping to make a major impression on Pochettino provided that different forwards like AS Monaco’s Folarin Balogun, PSV Eindhoven’s Ricardo Pepi and Norwich Metropolis’s Josh Sargent have been all not named to the ultimate Gold Cup roster.
Info from ESPN’s Cesar Hernandez contributed to this report.
