{"id":75204,"date":"2026-06-22T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/usmnts-alex-zendejas-yet-to-play-at-world-cup-readies-for-his-moment-im-sure-itll-come\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:00:00","slug":"usmnts-alex-zendejas-yet-to-play-at-world-cup-readies-for-his-moment-im-sure-itll-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/usmnts-alex-zendejas-yet-to-play-at-world-cup-readies-for-his-moment-im-sure-itll-come\/","title":{"rendered":"USMNT\u2019s Alex Zendejas, yet to play at World Cup, readies for his moment: \u2018I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll come\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Club Am\u00e9rica star did not appear in first two US games<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Dual-national was surprise pick to Pochettino\u2019s squad<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Dead-rubber Turkey match could be time for debut<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As his US teammates finished off group-clinching wins over Paraguay and Australia, all Alex Zendejas could do to help was watch.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t the role Zendejas aspired to have at this World Cup. The 28-year-old was a coveted dual-national who chose to represent the nation he grew up in over Mexico, where he was born and has played most of his professional career. At the USMNT\u2019s open training before the Paraguay match, Club Am\u00e9rica jerseys were the best represented of the club shirts held by fans for signing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/22\/usmnt-alex-zendejas-world-cup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Club Am\u00e9rica star did not appear in first two US games Dual-national was surprise pick to Pochettino\u2019s squad Dead-rubber Turkey match could be time for debut As his US teammates finished off group-clinching wins over Paraguay and Australia, all Alex Zendejas could do to help was watch. It isn\u2019t the role Zendejas aspired to have &#8230; <a title=\"USMNT\u2019s Alex Zendejas, yet to play at World Cup, readies for his moment: \u2018I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll come\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/usmnts-alex-zendejas-yet-to-play-at-world-cup-readies-for-his-moment-im-sure-itll-come\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USMNT\u2019s Alex Zendejas, yet to play at World Cup, readies for his moment: \u2018I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll come\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-75204","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\/75204","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=75204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}