{"id":69188,"date":"2026-03-17T11:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/usmnt-squad-mauricio-pochettino-calls-in-27-for-friendlies-against-portugal-and-belgium\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T11:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:05:04","slug":"usmnt-squad-mauricio-pochettino-calls-in-27-for-friendlies-against-portugal-and-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/usmnt-squad-mauricio-pochettino-calls-in-27-for-friendlies-against-portugal-and-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"USMNT squad: Mauricio Pochettino calls in 27 for friendlies against Portugal and Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Tyler Adams and Diego Luna miss out through injury<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Team due to play Belgium and Portugal in Atlanta<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Final games before World Cup squad is announced<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US men\u2019s national team head coach Mauricio Pochettino has named a 27-player roster for the team\u2019s last camp before he determines his final squad for this summer\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The group will play two high-profile friendlies in Atlanta over the next international window, with the US facing Belgium on Saturday 28 March (3.30pm ET) and Portugal on Tuesday 31 March (7pm ET).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/17\/usmnt-squad-belgium-portugal-friendlies-world-cup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Adams and Diego Luna miss out through injury Team due to play Belgium and Portugal in Atlanta Final games before World Cup squad is announced US men\u2019s national team head coach Mauricio Pochettino has named a 27-player roster for the team\u2019s last camp before he determines his final squad for this summer\u2019s World Cup. &#8230; <a title=\"USMNT squad: Mauricio Pochettino calls in 27 for friendlies against Portugal and Belgium\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/usmnt-squad-mauricio-pochettino-calls-in-27-for-friendlies-against-portugal-and-belgium\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USMNT squad: Mauricio Pochettino calls in 27 for friendlies against Portugal and Belgium\">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-69188","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\/69188","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=69188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}