ReutersMay 25, 2023, 02:02 PM ET2 Minute Learn

Delphine Cascarino has scored 14 targets in 56 appearances for France.Visionhaus/Getty Pictures

France’s Delphine Cascarino will miss the World Cup after her membership Lyon stated on Thursday that she can be sidelined for “a number of months” after rupturing an anterior cruciate ligament.

Cascarino, who has made 56 appearances for France, ruptured her proper ACL in a league win over Paris Saint-Germain on Sunday.

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“[Cascarino] underwent assessments in midweek, which … revealed a partial rupture of the best anterior cruciate ligament,” Lyon stated in a press release. The French membership added that the winger might want to bear reconstructive surgical procedure and shall be out “for a number of months”.

“Sadly, I will not be capable to participate within the World Cup this summer time with my staff mates, whom I will be supporting from right here,” Cascarino stated on Instagram.

France, who’re additionally with out Marie-Antoinette Katoto, shall be seeking to win their maiden World Cup at this 12 months’s showpiece occasion, which is being co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia from July 20-Aug. 20.

They start their marketing campaign in Group F in opposition to Jamaica on July 23 earlier than going through Brazil and Panama.

France usually are not the one staff to be hit by main accidents forward of the World Cup.

The U.S. girls’s nationwide staff, winners of the final two World Cups, shall be with out forwards Mallory Swanson and Catarina Macario resulting from knee accidents.

European champions England, in the meantime, will certainly be lacking captain Leah Williamson and ahead Fran Kirby whereas Euro 2022 participant of the event Beth Mead can also be unlikely to be match after injuring her ACL final December.