{"id":75624,"date":"2026-07-01T21:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/steely-usa-overcome-bosnia-and-herzegovina-and-controversial-red-to-reach-world-cup-last-16\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:57:07","slug":"steely-usa-overcome-bosnia-and-herzegovina-and-controversial-red-to-reach-world-cup-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/steely-usa-overcome-bosnia-and-herzegovina-and-controversial-red-to-reach-world-cup-last-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Steely USA overcome Bosnia and Herzegovina and controversial red to reach World Cup last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/usfootballteam\">The US<\/a> had their hands on their heads. Weston McKennie\u2019s face betrayed a look of total disbelief. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/mauricio-pochettino\">Mauricio Pochettino<\/a> waved his hands towards the sky, incredulous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/jul\/01\/usa-v-bosnia-and-herzegovina-world-cup-2026-last-32-live\">Folarin Balogun had been sent off<\/a> after a seemingly innocent collision with Bosnia and Herzegovina\u2019s Tarik Muharemovi\u0107 that saw the US striker land a foot on his opponent\u2019s ankle. Just like that, the United States\u2019 high-flying World Cup journey had the feel of impending doom. The temperature had soared on a previously cool, sunny evening at San Francisco Bay Area Stadium. And it wouldn\u2019t fall until Malik Tillman had his say.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/01\/usa-bosnia-and-herzegovina-game-report-world-cup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US had their hands on their heads. Weston McKennie\u2019s face betrayed a look of total disbelief. Mauricio Pochettino waved his hands towards the sky, incredulous. Folarin Balogun had been sent off after a seemingly innocent collision with Bosnia and Herzegovina\u2019s Tarik Muharemovi\u0107 that saw the US striker land a foot on his opponent\u2019s ankle. &#8230; <a title=\"Steely USA overcome Bosnia and Herzegovina and controversial red to reach World Cup last 16\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/steely-usa-overcome-bosnia-and-herzegovina-and-controversial-red-to-reach-world-cup-last-16\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Steely USA overcome Bosnia and Herzegovina and controversial red to reach World Cup last 16\">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-75624","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\/75624","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=75624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}