{"id":81215,"date":"2026-11-11T17:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T22:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/us-withdraw-from-u-17-world-cup-in-qatar-due-to-safety-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T17:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T22:54:54","slug":"us-withdraw-from-u-17-world-cup-in-qatar-due-to-safety-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/us-withdraw-from-u-17-world-cup-in-qatar-due-to-safety-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"US withdraw from U-17 World Cup in Qatar due to safety concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>USSF cites state department advisory about Qatar<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Competition set to kick off in eight days<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US men\u2019s national team have pulled out of the Fifa U-17 World Cup, which is due to kick off in Qatar in just over a week. In a letter sent to players explaining the decision, the US Soccer Federation cited safety concerns for players and staff, referring them to the <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/en\/international-travel\/travel-advisories\/qatar.html\">US state department\u2019s travel advisory<\/a> for Qatar, which encourages citizens to reconsider travel to the country \u201cdue to risk of armed conflict\u201d and asks government employees to obtain special authorization to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, in light of current circumstances \u2026 we are no longer able to participate in the tournament,\u201d US Soccer\u2019s letter to players reads. \u201cThe wellbeing of our players and staff will always be our top priority.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/nov\/11\/usa-u-17-world-cup-qatar-withdrawal-middle-east-conflict\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USSF cites state department advisory about Qatar Competition set to kick off in eight days The US men\u2019s national team have pulled out of the Fifa U-17 World Cup, which is due to kick off in Qatar in just over a week. In a letter sent to players explaining the decision, the US Soccer Federation &#8230; <a title=\"US withdraw from U-17 World Cup in Qatar due to safety concerns\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/us-withdraw-from-u-17-world-cup-in-qatar-due-to-safety-concerns\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US withdraw from U-17 World Cup in Qatar due to safety concerns\">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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81215","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\/81215","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=81215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}