{"id":77205,"date":"2026-08-10T06:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/mexico-seal-place-at-2028-olympics-after-controversial-var-red-card-in-u-20-win-over-us\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T06:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:54:49","slug":"mexico-seal-place-at-2028-olympics-after-controversial-var-red-card-in-u-20-win-over-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/mexico-seal-place-at-2028-olympics-after-controversial-var-red-card-in-u-20-win-over-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico seal place at 2028 Olympics after controversial VAR red card in U-20 win over US"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>El Tri seal Concacaf Under-20 championship at Azteca<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Chris Applewhite sent off after video review<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Crist\u00f3bal Alfaro scored twice as Mexico retained their Concacaf Under-20 title with a 2-0 victory over the United States in the final at the Azteca on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The victory booked Mexico\u2019s place at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics \u2013 the US have already qualified as hosts \u2013 but the match was overshadowed by a controversial red card. The US were reduced to 10 men just before half-time when Chris Applewhite received a red card after a VAR review for a challenge on Hugo Camberos, during which the US captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Db10KfpOLUo\/\">appeared to make minimal contact<\/a> with his opponent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/aug\/10\/mexico-seal-place-at-2028-olympics-after-controversial-var-red-card-in-u-20-win-over-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Tri seal Concacaf Under-20 championship at Azteca Chris Applewhite sent off after video review Crist\u00f3bal Alfaro scored twice as Mexico retained their Concacaf Under-20 title with a 2-0 victory over the United States in the final at the Azteca on Sunday. The victory booked Mexico\u2019s place at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics \u2013 the &#8230; <a title=\"Mexico seal place at 2028 Olympics after controversial VAR red card in U-20 win over US\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/mexico-seal-place-at-2028-olympics-after-controversial-var-red-card-in-u-20-win-over-us\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mexico seal place at 2028 Olympics after controversial VAR red card in U-20 win over US\">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-77205","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\/77205","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=77205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}