{"id":74925,"date":"2026-06-15T22:55:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/us-upbeat-on-pulisics-fitness-ahead-of-australia-game-christian-will-be-ready-relax\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:55:44","slug":"us-upbeat-on-pulisics-fitness-ahead-of-australia-game-christian-will-be-ready-relax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/us-upbeat-on-pulisics-fitness-ahead-of-australia-game-christian-will-be-ready-relax\/","title":{"rendered":"US upbeat on Pulisic\u2019s fitness ahead of Australia game: \u2018Christian will be ready, relax\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Midfielder left Friday\u2019s win over Paraguay early<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Team confident Pulisic will play against Socceroos<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mauricio Pochettino has moved to allay concerns over Christian Pulisic\u2019s fitness as the US prepare for their World Cup clash with Australia on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Pulisic was brilliant in the opening half of the US\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/12\/usa-paraguay-world-cup-2026-group-d-match-report\">4-1 win over Paraguay last week<\/a>. He was taken off at half-time but insisted he was not carrying a serious injury.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/15\/christian-pulisic-injury-world-cup-usmnt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midfielder left Friday\u2019s win over Paraguay early Team confident Pulisic will play against Socceroos Mauricio Pochettino has moved to allay concerns over Christian Pulisic\u2019s fitness as the US prepare for their World Cup clash with Australia on Friday. Pulisic was brilliant in the opening half of the US\u2019s 4-1 win over Paraguay last week. He &#8230; <a title=\"US upbeat on Pulisic\u2019s fitness ahead of Australia game: \u2018Christian will be ready, relax\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/us-upbeat-on-pulisics-fitness-ahead-of-australia-game-christian-will-be-ready-relax\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US upbeat on Pulisic\u2019s fitness ahead of Australia game: \u2018Christian will be ready, relax\u2019\">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-74925","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\/74925","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=74925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}