{"id":76960,"date":"2026-08-04T11:55:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/usmnt-to-face-mexico-and-canada-in-friendlies-to-kick-off-2030-world-cup-cycle\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T11:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:55:44","slug":"usmnt-to-face-mexico-and-canada-in-friendlies-to-kick-off-2030-world-cup-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/usmnt-to-face-mexico-and-canada-in-friendlies-to-kick-off-2030-world-cup-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"USMNT to face Mexico and Canada in friendlies to kick off 2030 World Cup cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Fall opponents also include Peru and Chile<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Matches set for 26 September to 6 October<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/aug\/04\/usmnt-friendlies-mexico-canada\">First games since Pochettino agreed to return<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US men\u2019s national team will kick off the next World Cup cycle with four matches over 11 days on home soil.<\/p>\n<p>The friendlies include games against Peru, Chile, Mexico and Canada in US cities that didn\u2019t host World Cup action this summer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/aug\/04\/usmnt-friendlies-mexico-canada\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall opponents also include Peru and Chile Matches set for 26 September to 6 October First games since Pochettino agreed to return The US men\u2019s national team will kick off the next World Cup cycle with four matches over 11 days on home soil. The friendlies include games against Peru, Chile, Mexico and Canada in &#8230; <a title=\"USMNT to face Mexico and Canada in friendlies to kick off 2030 World Cup cycle\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/usmnt-to-face-mexico-and-canada-in-friendlies-to-kick-off-2030-world-cup-cycle\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USMNT to face Mexico and Canada in friendlies to kick off 2030 World Cup cycle\">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-76960","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\/76960","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=76960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}