{"id":76782,"date":"2026-07-31T04:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/can-we-kick-it-new-doc-is-timely-take-on-black-history-pay-to-play-and-future-of-us-soccer\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T04:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:54:53","slug":"can-we-kick-it-new-doc-is-timely-take-on-black-history-pay-to-play-and-future-of-us-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/can-we-kick-it-new-doc-is-timely-take-on-black-history-pay-to-play-and-future-of-us-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Kick It?: new doc is timely take on Black history, pay-to-play and future of US soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akbar Majeed\u2019s new feature tells the story of the sport through a Black lens and asks hard questions about the barriers facing the game\u2019s breakthrough<\/p>\n<p>Akbar Majeed takes a deep breath as he considers the legacy of the 2026 World Cup and, in particular, the effect of the US team\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/06\/usa-belgium-world-cup-2026-match-report\">collapse<\/a> against Belgium for a last-16 exit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, that performance in the last game did not help at all,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/31\/can-we-kick-it-soccer-documentary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akbar Majeed\u2019s new feature tells the story of the sport through a Black lens and asks hard questions about the barriers facing the game\u2019s breakthrough Akbar Majeed takes a deep breath as he considers the legacy of the 2026 World Cup and, in particular, the effect of the US team\u2019s collapse against Belgium for a &#8230; <a title=\"Can We Kick It?: new doc is timely take on Black history, pay-to-play and future of US soccer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/can-we-kick-it-new-doc-is-timely-take-on-black-history-pay-to-play-and-future-of-us-soccer\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Can We Kick It?: new doc is timely take on Black history, pay-to-play and future of US soccer\">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-76782","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\/76782","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=76782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}