{"id":75816,"date":"2026-07-07T02:56:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/world-cup-2026-usa-bounced-out-by-belgium-after-balogun-furore-backlash-against-fifa-builds-live\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T02:56:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:56:30","slug":"world-cup-2026-usa-bounced-out-by-belgium-after-balogun-furore-backlash-against-fifa-builds-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/world-cup-2026-usa-bounced-out-by-belgium-after-balogun-furore-backlash-against-fifa-builds-live\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: USA bounced out by Belgium after Balogun furore; backlash against Fifa builds \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd News and previews before the final last-16 match-ups<br \/>\u26bd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jun\/04\/world-cup-2026-complete-player-guide\">Player guide<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jun\/04\/bracketology-predict-a-path-to-world-cup-victory\">Bracketology<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jun\/04\/golden-boot-world-cup-2026-top-goalscorers-winner\">Golden Boot<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:matchday.live@theguardian.com\">Email Luke<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>BTL comments<\/strong> about BalogunGate, and other stuff, including soccer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>I am sad to leave like<\/strong> this but I have given everything, always given my best,\u201d Ronaldo said. \u201cI go with a clear conscience. This is football, it is the life of a footballer. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. You have to carry on. It was my last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/world-cup-football\">World Cup<\/a>, yes, but as far as the rest of it is concerned: there will be time to think, to be with my family, [I will] not make decisions in the heat of the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/jul\/07\/world-cup-2026-usa-bounced-out-by-belgium-after-balogun-furore-backlash-against-fifa-builds-argentina-egypt-colombia-switzerlandlive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd News and previews before the final last-16 match-ups\u26bd Player guide | Bracketology| Golden Boot | Email Luke BTL comments about BalogunGate, and other stuff, including soccer. \u201cI am sad to leave like this but I have given everything, always given my best,\u201d Ronaldo said. \u201cI go with a clear conscience. This is football, it &#8230; <a title=\"World Cup 2026: USA bounced out by Belgium after Balogun furore; backlash against Fifa builds \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/world-cup-2026-usa-bounced-out-by-belgium-after-balogun-furore-backlash-against-fifa-builds-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about World Cup 2026: USA bounced out by Belgium after Balogun furore; backlash against Fifa builds \u2013 live\">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-75816","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\/75816","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=75816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}