{"id":28331,"date":"2024-12-12T19:42:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T19:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/the-uswnt-won-olympic-gold-why-did-none-of-their-players-make-the-fifpro-xi\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T19:42:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T19:42:32","slug":"the-uswnt-won-olympic-gold-why-did-none-of-their-players-make-the-fifpro-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/the-uswnt-won-olympic-gold-why-did-none-of-their-players-make-the-fifpro-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"The USWNT won Olympic gold. Why did none of their players make the Fifpro XI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian\u2019s ranking of the world\u2019s best female footballers overflowed with Americans. But their fellow players largely shunned them<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s soccer has grown exponentially in the 22 years since Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra marveled at the very existence of a professional game in the USA in Bend It Like Beckham.<\/p>\n<p>In the film, the main characters went off to the USA to play collegiate soccer, while the UK had only the faintest whispers that local clubs might soon field professional teams. Today, the protagonists would have several professional options without ever straying from the reach of Greater London.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2024\/dec\/12\/the-uswnt-won-olympic-gold-why-did-none-of-their-players-make-the-fifpro-xi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian\u2019s ranking of the world\u2019s best female footballers overflowed with Americans. But their fellow players largely shunned them Women\u2019s soccer has grown exponentially in the 22 years since Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra marveled at the very existence of a professional game in the USA in Bend It Like Beckham. In the film, the &#8230; <a title=\"The USWNT won Olympic gold. Why did none of their players make the Fifpro XI?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/the-uswnt-won-olympic-gold-why-did-none-of-their-players-make-the-fifpro-xi\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The USWNT won Olympic gold. Why did none of their players make the Fifpro XI?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}