{"id":75062,"date":"2026-06-19T01:59:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/as-co-host-of-the-world-cup-is-the-us-learning-to-love-soccer-video\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T01:59:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:59:27","slug":"as-co-host-of-the-world-cup-is-the-us-learning-to-love-soccer-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/as-co-host-of-the-world-cup-is-the-us-learning-to-love-soccer-video\/","title":{"rendered":"As co-host of the World Cup, is the US learning to love soccer? \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer \u2013 football to many \u2013 may be the most played youth sport in the US but it still sits behind the NFL, basketball and baseball in the battle for mainstream attention. Longtime sports writer John Shea of the San Francisco Standard says the current World Cup buzz resembles the fleeting interest generated by the Olympics before Americans return to their sporting staples. That imbalance shapes the experience of players and fans alike. Bernardo Ramallo, who works with non-profit Soccer Without Borders says young soccer players have long endured jibes that the sport is \u2018weak\u2019 compared with American football.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/19\/australia-v-usa-socceroos-usmnt-confected-hostility-2026-world-cup\"><strong>Forget the confected World Cup hostility, the US and Australia mirror each other<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/video\/2026\/jun\/19\/as-co-host-of-the-world-cup-is-the-us-learning-to-love-soccer-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer \u2013 football to many \u2013 may be the most played youth sport in the US but it still sits behind the NFL, basketball and baseball in the battle for mainstream attention. Longtime sports writer John Shea of the San Francisco Standard says the current World Cup buzz resembles the fleeting interest generated by the &#8230; <a title=\"As co-host of the World Cup, is the US learning to love soccer? \u2013 video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/as-co-host-of-the-world-cup-is-the-us-learning-to-love-soccer-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about As co-host of the World Cup, is the US learning to love soccer? \u2013 video\">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-75062","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\/75062","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=75062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}