{"id":1772,"date":"2009-10-11T07:15:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T12:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/11\/team-usa-2010-world-cup-bound\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T06:43:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T11:43:27","slug":"team-usa-2010-world-cup-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/11\/team-usa-2010-world-cup-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA 2010 World Cup Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The game was not on here, so instead of watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/soccernet.espn.go.com\/report?id=279519&cc=5901\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/soccernet.espn.go.com\/report?id=279519&amp;cc=5901', 'U.S. beat Honduras 3-2');\" target=\"new\">U.S. beat Honduras 3-2<\/a> in a hostile stadium, I was watching the likes of Colorado\/Texas and Florida\/LSU.  Not that the college football was not enjoyable, but it just shows how far soccer has to go in the U.S.  How could such an important match not be televised?<\/p>\n<p>On this early Sunday morning I am lifting a cup of the black stuff (dare I say the morning version of the nectar of the gods) to a decent draw in South Africa.  Still have a week and change before <em>FIFA 2010<\/em> arrives.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The game was not on here, so instead of watching the U.S. beat Honduras 3-2 in a hostile stadium, I was watching the likes of Colorado\/Texas and Florida\/LSU. Not that the college football was not enjoyable, but it just shows how far soccer has to go in the U.S. How could such an important match &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/11\/team-usa-2010-world-cup-bound\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Team USA 2010 World Cup Bound<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-u-s-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2536,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/2536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}