USMNT's Wright (Achilles) out for rest of Gold Cup

ARLINGTON, Texas -- United States planetary guardant Haji Wright has been ruled retired for the remainder of the Concacaf Gold Cup owed to an Achilles injury, U.S. Soccer announced connected Saturday.

In a statement, the USSF added that Wright "will instrumentality to Coventry City for further valuation and treatment." Tournament rules stipulate that Wright can't beryllium replaced connected the U.S. roster.

Wright, 27, scored arsenic a substitute successful the USMNT's 5-0 tournament-opening triumph implicit Trinidad and Tobago, but was held retired of grooming successful the run-up to the lucifer against Saudi Arabia, and was near disconnected the game-day roster.

After the match, U.S. caput manager Mauricio Pochettino said that an announcement regarding Wright's presumption would beryllium made successful the coming days.

Wright was seen with his teammates getting disconnected the autobus anterior to Saturday's grooming session, but was constricted to gym work, according to a squad spokesperson.

The wounded is simply a pugnacious stroke for Wright, who was coming disconnected a coagulated play with Coventry City successful England's second-tier Championship, scoring 12 goals successful 31 league and cupful appearances.

He had besides been hoping to marque a important content connected Pochettino fixed that different forwards similar AS Monaco's Folarin Balogun, PSV Eindhoven's Ricardo Pepi and Norwich City's Josh Sargent were each not named to the last Gold Cup roster.