{"id":78768,"date":"2026-09-16T12:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/usa-fall-to-brazil-on-penalties-for-disappointing-exit-from-u-20-womens-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:55:10","slug":"usa-fall-to-brazil-on-penalties-for-disappointing-exit-from-u-20-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/usa-fall-to-brazil-on-penalties-for-disappointing-exit-from-u-20-womens-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"USA fall to Brazil on penalties for disappointing exit from U-20 Women\u2019s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Americans have not won tournament since 2012<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>US youth teams have struggled in recent showings<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Timing of U-20 World Cup has drawn criticism<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The United States were eliminated from the U-20 Women\u2019s World Cup in the last 16, falling to Brazil on penalties on Wednesday after playing to a 1-1 draw after extra-time. Brazil goalkeeper Tha\u00eds Lima made a crucial save on Emeri Adames\u2019s attempt to begin the shootout, opening the eventual 5-4 finish in Katowice, Poland.<\/p>\n<p>The result extends a difficult run of form for US youth national teams across the men\u2019s and women\u2019s programs. This is the third time since last October that a US youth team has failed to win a knockout game at a World Cup: the U-17 boys and the U-17 girls both exited in the last 16 of their respective tournaments in shootouts. The U-20 men fell in the quarter-final of their World Cup in October 2025.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/sep\/16\/usa-brazil-u20-womens-world-cup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans have not won tournament since 2012 US youth teams have struggled in recent showings Timing of U-20 World Cup has drawn criticism The United States were eliminated from the U-20 Women\u2019s World Cup in the last 16, falling to Brazil on penalties on Wednesday after playing to a 1-1 draw after extra-time. Brazil goalkeeper &#8230; <a title=\"USA fall to Brazil on penalties for disappointing exit from U-20 Women\u2019s World Cup\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/usa-fall-to-brazil-on-penalties-for-disappointing-exit-from-u-20-womens-world-cup\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USA fall to Brazil on penalties for disappointing exit from U-20 Women\u2019s World Cup\">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-78768","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\/78768","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=78768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}