{"id":70601,"date":"2026-04-01T11:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/experiments-excuses-and-uneasy-truths-for-usmnt-as-the-world-cup-looms\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:54:51","slug":"experiments-excuses-and-uneasy-truths-for-usmnt-as-the-world-cup-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/experiments-excuses-and-uneasy-truths-for-usmnt-as-the-world-cup-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiments, excuses and uneasy truths for USMNT as the World Cup looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An international break that many expected to provide clarity has instead provided fresh reasons to doubt the tournament co-hosts<\/p>\n<p>Roberto Mart\u00ednez has long been easy with a smile. Those moments aren\u2019t in short supply after wins like Tuesday\u2019s, when Portugal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/31\/usmnt-fall-2-0-to-portugal-in-final-game-before-world-cup-roster-is-named\">comfortably dispatched the United States<\/a> 2-0 in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>That smile was on full display afterward, when he was asked for his thoughts on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/28\/usmnt-belgium-analysis-jeremy-doku-defense\">how the US look ahead of <\/a>their home World Cup.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/apr\/01\/usmnt-portugal-belgium-review-world-cup-2026\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international break that many expected to provide clarity has instead provided fresh reasons to doubt the tournament co-hosts Roberto Mart\u00ednez has long been easy with a smile. Those moments aren\u2019t in short supply after wins like Tuesday\u2019s, when Portugal comfortably dispatched the United States 2-0 in Atlanta. That smile was on full display afterward, &#8230; <a title=\"Experiments, excuses and uneasy truths for USMNT as the World Cup looms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/experiments-excuses-and-uneasy-truths-for-usmnt-as-the-world-cup-looms\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Experiments, excuses and uneasy truths for USMNT as the World Cup looms\">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-70601","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\/70601","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=70601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}