{"id":730,"date":"2007-07-06T07:13:46","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T12:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=730"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:38:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:38:20","slug":"beware-another-soccer-post-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"Beware: Another Soccer Post Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We may have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ussoccer.com\/articles\/viewArticle.jsp_1409026.html\">layed an egg at Copa<\/a> with our inexperienced crew, but our U-20s are making some noise north of the border at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/u20worldcup\/index.html\">more junior World Cup.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WinFdnZOZ4g\">some video<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ussoccer.com\/articles\/viewArticle.jsp_1277961.html\">our 6-1 trouncing of Poland<\/a>, including Adu&#8217;s neat hat trick.<\/p>\n<p>Next up: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/u20worldcup\/matches\/round=249401\/match=58861\/preview.html\">USA v. Brazil.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/u20worldcup\/news\/newsid=545987.html#pato+adu\">Adu v. Pato<\/a>&#8211;should be a good one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 7\/7:<\/strong> USA 2 Brazil 1! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ussoccer.com\/articles\/viewArticle.jsp_1409031.html\">The U-20 Stars and Stripes book passage to the Round of 16,<\/a> and Brazil, well, they&#8217;ll just have to wait and see if they advance. The lethal combination of Adu to Altidore did the damage up top, and US keeper Chris Seitz had a magnificent match, deflecting and\/or smothering a barrage of dangerous opportunities. Despite being outshot and for the most part outpossessed by the technically superior <em>Canarinho,<\/em> we worked hard and finished well when it counted. As Adu said after the match, &#8220;the harder you work, the luckier you get.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--c7f458c489d21d2d637618c9a53d38f1--><\/p>\n<p><!--e72558a92a8c284a1ae4932eba84b1a2--><\/p>\n<p><!--c7f458c489d21d2d637618c9a53d38f1-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--e72558a92a8c284a1ae4932eba84b1a2-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--e72558a92a8c284a1ae4932eba84b1a2-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--e72558a92a8c284a1ae4932eba84b1a2-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--e72558a92a8c284a1ae4932eba84b1a2--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We may have layed an egg at Copa with our inexperienced crew, but our U-20s are making some noise north of the border at the more junior World Cup. Here&#8217;s some video of our 6-1 trouncing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,1,52,42,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazilian-national-team","category-general","category-soccer","category-sports","category-us-national-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9576,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/9576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}