{"id":70290,"date":"2026-03-28T22:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/usmnt-looked-disjointed-uneven-and-unrehearsed-in-big-loss-to-belgium-jeff-rueter\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T22:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:03:07","slug":"usmnt-looked-disjointed-uneven-and-unrehearsed-in-big-loss-to-belgium-jeff-rueter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/usmnt-looked-disjointed-uneven-and-unrehearsed-in-big-loss-to-belgium-jeff-rueter\/","title":{"rendered":"USMNT looked disjointed, uneven and unrehearsed in big loss to Belgium | Jeff Rueter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku tore the US to shreds on Saturday, with a defense counting on help that never came<\/p>\n<p>Two years can feel like an eternity \u2013 just not in international football.<\/p>\n<p>The USMNT hit restart on their 2026 World Cup cycle at its midpoint, changing coach after exiting the 2024 Copa Am\u00e9rica at the group stage. Mauricio Pochettino admitted as he arrived that he had scant familiarity with his inherited player pool, then embarked on an experimental year-plus of trying fresh faces and combinations in search of a winning formula.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/28\/usmnt-belgium-analysis-jeremy-doku-defense\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku tore the US to shreds on Saturday, with a defense counting on help that never came Two years can feel like an eternity \u2013 just not in international football. The USMNT hit restart on their 2026 World Cup cycle at its midpoint, changing coach after exiting the 2024 Copa Am\u00e9rica at the group &#8230; <a title=\"USMNT looked disjointed, uneven and unrehearsed in big loss to Belgium | Jeff Rueter\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/usmnt-looked-disjointed-uneven-and-unrehearsed-in-big-loss-to-belgium-jeff-rueter\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USMNT looked disjointed, uneven and unrehearsed in big loss to Belgium | Jeff Rueter\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70290","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=70290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}