{"id":78847,"date":"2026-09-18T08:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/noahkai-banks-top-dual-national-prospect-chooses-germany-in-blow-to-usmnt\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:56:05","slug":"noahkai-banks-top-dual-national-prospect-chooses-germany-in-blow-to-usmnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/noahkai-banks-top-dual-national-prospect-chooses-germany-in-blow-to-usmnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Noahkai Banks, top dual-national prospect, chooses Germany in blow to USMNT"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Germany U-21 manager announces the decision<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>19-year-old had represented only US at youth level<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The United States\u2019 pursuit of dual-national defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/11\/noahkai-banks-usmnt-analysis-augsburg\">Noahkai Banks<\/a> appears to be over.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old was named in Germany\u2019s U-21 squad for their upcoming U-21 European Championship qualifiers, with manager Antonio Di Salvo saying in an official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dfb.de\/news\/di-salvo-names-seven-debutants-in-germany-u21-squad-for-final-u21-euro-qualifiers\">release<\/a> that Banks and Louey Ben Farhat, another dual national, have \u201cchosen to represent Germany\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/sep\/18\/noahkai-banks-germany-usmnt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany U-21 manager announces the decision 19-year-old had represented only US at youth level The United States\u2019 pursuit of dual-national defender Noahkai Banks appears to be over. The 19-year-old was named in Germany\u2019s U-21 squad for their upcoming U-21 European Championship qualifiers, with manager Antonio Di Salvo saying in an official release that Banks and &#8230; <a title=\"Noahkai Banks, top dual-national prospect, chooses Germany in blow to USMNT\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/noahkai-banks-top-dual-national-prospect-chooses-germany-in-blow-to-usmnt\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Noahkai Banks, top dual-national prospect, chooses Germany in blow to USMNT\">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-78847","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\/78847","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=78847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}