{"id":74951,"date":"2026-06-16T14:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/tim-weah-greets-us-media-barbs-at-socceroos-with-eyeroll-its-going-to-be-a-lovely-game\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T14:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:54:49","slug":"tim-weah-greets-us-media-barbs-at-socceroos-with-eyeroll-its-going-to-be-a-lovely-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/tim-weah-greets-us-media-barbs-at-socceroos-with-eyeroll-its-going-to-be-a-lovely-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Weah greets US media barbs at Socceroos with eyeroll: \u2018It\u2019s going to be a lovely game\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Former USMNT players have disparaged Australia<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Australia and US face each other on Friday<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former US players, perhaps caught up in the swell of confidence brought about by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/12\/usa-paraguay-world-cup-2026-group-d-match-report\">team\u2019s 4-1 romp over Paraguay<\/a> in their World Cup opener, have fired barbs at Australia, their next opponents. The Socceroos have fired back. And current US players are having none of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll this talk is just nonsense to me,\u201d US winger Tim Weah told the media on Tuesday, seconds after rolling his eyes and giving an incredulous look when told about comments from US pundits describing Friday\u2019s match as a \u201clayup,\u201d or that the Australian team itself is \u201caverage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/16\/usa-australia-world-cup-media-comments\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former USMNT players have disparaged Australia Australia and US face each other on Friday Former US players, perhaps caught up in the swell of confidence brought about by the team\u2019s 4-1 romp over Paraguay in their World Cup opener, have fired barbs at Australia, their next opponents. The Socceroos have fired back. And current US &#8230; <a title=\"Tim Weah greets US media barbs at Socceroos with eyeroll: \u2018It\u2019s going to be a lovely game\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/tim-weah-greets-us-media-barbs-at-socceroos-with-eyeroll-its-going-to-be-a-lovely-game\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tim Weah greets US media barbs at Socceroos with eyeroll: \u2018It\u2019s going to be a lovely game\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-74951","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\/74951","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=74951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}