{"id":72063,"date":"2026-04-18T04:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/kennedy-wesleys-first-international-goal-sparks-usa-to-win-over-japan\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T04:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:57:12","slug":"kennedy-wesleys-first-international-goal-sparks-usa-to-win-over-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/kennedy-wesleys-first-international-goal-sparks-usa-to-win-over-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Wesley\u2019s first international goal sparks USA to win over Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Wesley scores first US goal in rout of Japan<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Girma and Lavelle also strike in Colorado win<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Hayes\u2019s side take series after Seattle setback<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kennedy Wesley scored her first international goal and had an assist after entering as a substitution after halftime, Naomi Girma and Rose Lavelle each added a goal and the United States beat Japan 3-0 in a friendly Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Claudia Dickey had three saves for the United States.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/apr\/18\/uswnt-japan-friendly-kennedy-wesley\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wesley scores first US goal in rout of Japan Girma and Lavelle also strike in Colorado win Hayes\u2019s side take series after Seattle setback Kennedy Wesley scored her first international goal and had an assist after entering as a substitution after halftime, Naomi Girma and Rose Lavelle each added a goal and the United States &#8230; <a title=\"Kennedy Wesley\u2019s first international goal sparks USA to win over Japan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/kennedy-wesleys-first-international-goal-sparks-usa-to-win-over-japan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kennedy Wesley\u2019s first international goal sparks USA to win over Japan\">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-72063","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\/72063","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=72063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}