American defender Chris Richards will miss the World Cup due to an harm that has sidelined him for greater than two months.
“Gutted that this harm has dominated me out of the World Cup,” he wrote Tuesday on Instagram.
“Might be rooting for y’all the entire manner,” he stated of his U.S. teammates.
A 22-year-old from Birmingham, Alabama, Richards debuted for the U.S. in November 2020 and has made eight worldwide appearances.
U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter is about to announce his 26-man roster Wednesday.
The U.S. already was lacking Atlanta defender Miles Robinson, who tore his left Achilles on Could 7.
Richards final performed in a Sept. 6 exhibition for Crystal Palace’s under-23 group towards Hertha Berlin. His final aggressive match was Aug. 27 at Manchester Metropolis, when he entered within the 57th minute.
He agreed in July to a five-year contract with Palace, leaving Bayern Munich. Richards arrived in Germany 4 years in the past from academy of Main League Soccer’s Dallas group and made his Bundesliga debut in June 2020 towards Freiburg. He was loaned to Hoffenheim for the second half of the season and spent most of 2021-22 at Hoffenheim.
Richards made three Premier League appearances this season, all in its place, and began towards Oxford within the League Cup.
Again within the World Cup after lacking the 2018 event, the U.S. opens towards Wales on Nov. 21, performs England in a Black Friday matchup 4 days later and closes group play on Nov. 29 towards Iran.