A hip injury has prevented Toronto FC captain Jonathan Osorio from joining Canada for a key Copa America qualifying playoff match next Saturday against Trinidad and Tobago.
Osorio's loss is a blow for interim coach Mauro Biello. With 71 caps, the 31-year-old Osorio was the most senior player — and the only one over 30 — on the Canada roster, as well as a candidate to captain the side.
The 26-year-old Fraser has 19 caps, last appearing for Canada off the bench in a 2-2 draw with the U.S. at the CONCACAF Gold Cup in July in Cincinnati."He twisted his ankle on the Thursday and then just got a little flare-up in the hip again," Toronto coach John Herdman said after the game. "So just one thing tends to lead to another.""For Oso, really precautionary. He just wasn't good to go," Herdman said. "A big loss for us in that sense.
"It's a really tricky bone in the wrist," said Herdman. "So you have to get that one right. Normally you would just cast that up and put him out but it's a really tricky bone."Petretta was sidelined after a hip flare-up led to a tear in the adductor, Herdman said.
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