{"id":74260,"date":"2026-05-31T16:56:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/christian-pulisic-shines-as-us-kick-off-world-cup-preparations-with-3-2-win-over-senegal\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T16:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:56:41","slug":"christian-pulisic-shines-as-us-kick-off-world-cup-preparations-with-3-2-win-over-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/christian-pulisic-shines-as-us-kick-off-world-cup-preparations-with-3-2-win-over-senegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Pulisic shines as US kick off World Cup preparations with 3-2 win over Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Pulisic scores and assists in first half to break rotten run<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Sergi\u00f1o Dest opens scoring just seven minutes in<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>US final tune-up comes v Germany on 6 June in Chicago<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The dry spell is over.<\/p>\n<p>Milan midfielder Christian Pulisic broke a nearly six-month period without a goal on Sunday, assisting on the US opener and scoring a lovely goal himself not long afterward to lead the US men\u2019s national team to a 3-2 victory against No 14-ranked Senegal in Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/may\/31\/usmnt-senegal-christian-pulisic-world-cup-friendly\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulisic scores and assists in first half to break rotten run Sergi\u00f1o Dest opens scoring just seven minutes in US final tune-up comes v Germany on 6 June in Chicago The dry spell is over. Milan midfielder Christian Pulisic broke a nearly six-month period without a goal on Sunday, assisting on the US opener and &#8230; <a title=\"Christian Pulisic shines as US kick off World Cup preparations with 3-2 win over Senegal\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/christian-pulisic-shines-as-us-kick-off-world-cup-preparations-with-3-2-win-over-senegal\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Christian Pulisic shines as US kick off World Cup preparations with 3-2 win over Senegal\">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-74260","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\/74260","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=74260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}