{"id":37705,"date":"2025-04-02T10:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/the-us-mens-national-team-arent-just-underachievers-theyre-unlikeable-beau-dure\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:16:16","slug":"the-us-mens-national-team-arent-just-underachievers-theyre-unlikeable-beau-dure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/the-us-mens-national-team-arent-just-underachievers-theyre-unlikeable-beau-dure\/","title":{"rendered":"The US men\u2019s national team aren\u2019t just underachievers; they\u2019re unlikeable | Beau Dure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2026 World Cup approaches, the USMNT lack the charisma, underdog charm and striking victories of their predecessors<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the 1980 Miracle on Ice, but with the USA on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>In this scenario, the US men\u2019s hockey team aren\u2019t a scrappy band of outmatched amateurs playing for the country perceived as the good guys in the cold war. The opponents aren\u2019t an aloof, brutally effective Soviet Union team expected to steamroll their way to a gold medal just as their military were attempting to steamroll their way through Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/apr\/02\/usmnt-nations-league-unlikeable\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2026 World Cup approaches, the USMNT lack the charisma, underdog charm and striking victories of their predecessors Imagine the 1980 Miracle on Ice, but with the USA on the other side. In this scenario, the US men\u2019s hockey team aren\u2019t a scrappy band of outmatched amateurs playing for the country perceived as the &#8230; <a title=\"The US men\u2019s national team aren\u2019t just underachievers; they\u2019re unlikeable | Beau Dure\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/the-us-mens-national-team-arent-just-underachievers-theyre-unlikeable-beau-dure\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The US men\u2019s national team aren\u2019t just underachievers; they\u2019re unlikeable | Beau Dure\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-37705","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\/37705","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}