Patrick Agyemang suffered a severe Achilles tendon harm, Derby County introduced Tuesday, ending his first season in England and dashing his U.S. World Cup hopes two months earlier than the event.
The 6-foot-4 ahead will endure additional analysis and stay sidelined indefinitely, the English Championship membership mentioned.
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“The membership will present Patrick with the best degree of medical care and rehabilitation all through his restoration,” the membership mentioned. “Everybody at Derby County is absolutely behind Patrick at this troublesome time and can proceed to help him each step of the best way.”
Derby County’s Patrick Agyemang is helped on to a stretcher on Monday, April 6, 2026. (Photograph by Mike Egerton/PA Photographs through Getty Photographs)
(Mike Egerton – PA Photographs through Getty Photographs)
Derby confirmed “Patrick will sadly miss this summer time’s FIFA World Cup. At this stage it might be incorrect to place a timeline on his restoration. Additional updates will probably be communicated sooner or later.”
A daily starter for Derby since early final fall, the previous Charlotte FC standout recorded 10 objectives and three assists in 37 league matches (33 begins). He’s second on the group in objectives, first in scoring manufacturing (13) and fourth in minutes performed.
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After ending in nineteenth place final season, Derby is eighth — one level again within the race for a promotion playoff berth with 5 matches left.
Though the 25-year-old Connecticut native was not sure of creating the World Cup squad, he was amongst 4 strikers competing for most likely three roster slots. Since debuting in January 2025, he has scored six objectives in 14 appearances. Within the March camp, he got here off the bench to attain a late objective within the 5-2 loss to Belgium and performed the second half of the 2-0 loss to Portugal.
Monaco’s Folarin Balogun (16 objectives in all membership competitions) is Mauricio Pochettino’s high striker, with Coventry Metropolis’s Haji Wright (17) and PSV Eindhoven’s Ricardo Pepi (13) in rivalry.
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Agyemang is the second U.S. participant dominated out of World Cup rivalry with an Achilles tendon harm. Heart again Cameron Carter-Vickers, a member of the 2022 squad, suffered such an harm in October and hasn’t performed since.
Pochettino will identify his 26-man World Cup squad on Could 26.