{"id":74548,"date":"2026-06-06T17:01:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T22:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/us-show-fight-and-hunger-but-lose-final-world-cup-prep-match-2-1-to-germany\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T17:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T22:01:55","slug":"us-show-fight-and-hunger-but-lose-final-world-cup-prep-match-2-1-to-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/us-show-fight-and-hunger-but-lose-final-world-cup-prep-match-2-1-to-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"US show fight and hunger, but lose final World Cup prep match 2-1 to Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Antonee Robinson scores the Americans\u2019 only goal<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>US open World Cup on 12 June against Paraguay<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2023\/jul\/20\/sign-up-for-soccer-with-jonathan-wilson-his-free-weekly-newsletter-on-european-soccer\"><strong>World Cup newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/series\/footballweekly\"><strong>Daily podcast<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/1o65wsyj\"><strong>Get the app<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ready or not, here comes the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>The US men concluded their pre-World Cup preparations with a 2-1 loss against Germany on Saturday at Soldier Field, in front of a lively sellout crowd of 63,636. The fans made their way to the historic venue on a Chicago summer afternoon which alternated palpable heat with occasional drizzling rain.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/06\/usmnt-germany-world-cup-friendly-match-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonee Robinson scores the Americans\u2019 only goal US open World Cup on 12 June against Paraguay World Cup newsletter | Daily podcast | Get the app Ready or not, here comes the group stage. The US men concluded their pre-World Cup preparations with a 2-1 loss against Germany on Saturday at Soldier Field, in front &#8230; <a title=\"US show fight and hunger, but lose final World Cup prep match 2-1 to Germany\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/us-show-fight-and-hunger-but-lose-final-world-cup-prep-match-2-1-to-germany\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US show fight and hunger, but lose final World Cup prep match 2-1 to Germany\">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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74548","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\/74548","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=74548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}