{"id":1891568,"date":"2026-07-07T13:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1891568"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:19:20","slug":"same-old-story-us-mens-soccer-team-has-been-stagnant-for-quarter-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1891568","title":{"rendered":"Same old story: US men&#8217;s soccer team has been stagnant for quarter century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 For all the growth in American soccer over the past quarter-century, the U.S. men&#8217;s national team remains stagnant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/4e245-same-old-story-us-mens-soccer-team-has-been-stagnant-for-25-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 For all the growth in American soccer over the past quarter-century, the U.S. men&#8217;s national team remains stagnant. Click here to read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1891568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891569,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891568\/revisions\/1891569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1891568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1891568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1891568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}