{"id":77854,"date":"2026-08-25T04:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/25\/another-set-of-sullivan-brothers-are-making-football-waves-in-bangladesh\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T04:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:55:26","slug":"another-set-of-sullivan-brothers-are-making-football-waves-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/25\/another-set-of-sullivan-brothers-are-making-football-waves-in-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Another set of Sullivan brothers are making football waves in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Cavan and Quinn Sullivan star in MLS with the Philadelphia Union, brothers Ronan and Declan have connected with their South Asian heritage<\/p>\n<p>Ronan Sullivan had tried a panenka twice in his life. Both attempts were at practice on the other side of the world, and one hit the crossbar. But his twin brother, Declan, was hardly surprised when Ronan turned to him and told him he\u2019d chip the fifth penalty of a shootout that could win a scoreless tournament final, as millions tuned in online to see his Bangladesh side play against India in the Under-20 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t even need to say it. I knew he was gonna do that the whole time,\u201d Declan remembered, sitting next to his brother on the couch of their dorm room at Saint Joseph\u2019s University. \u201cI knew that if he got the last pen to win it, he was gonna do that. That\u2019s just the him thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/aug\/25\/bangladesh-soccer-team-ronan-declan-sullivan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Cavan and Quinn Sullivan star in MLS with the Philadelphia Union, brothers Ronan and Declan have connected with their South Asian heritage Ronan Sullivan had tried a panenka twice in his life. Both attempts were at practice on the other side of the world, and one hit the crossbar. But his twin brother, Declan, &#8230; <a title=\"Another set of Sullivan brothers are making football waves in Bangladesh\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/25\/another-set-of-sullivan-brothers-are-making-football-waves-in-bangladesh\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Another set of Sullivan brothers are making football waves in Bangladesh\">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-77854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77854","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=77854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}