{"id":424149,"date":"2026-01-21T18:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424149\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T18:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:37:07","slug":"meet-alessandro-canale-the-american-with-more-world-cup-goals-than-pele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424149\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Alessandro Canale, the American with more World Cup goals than Pel\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alessandro Canale contains multitudes. The beach soccer star has played in four FIFA Beach Soccer World Cups, scored 12 World Cup goals, and made over 100 appearances for the U.S. But he balances beach soccer\u00a0with an acting career (Canale once appeared in an episode of Malcolm in the Middle) and his passion for\u00a0art, design, and skateboarding. In this episode of The U.S. Soccer Podcast presented by Henkel, host Meghan Klingenberg touches on all of this and more with our talented and accomplished guest.<\/p>\n<p>01:11 \u2013 David Gass and Meghan Klingenberg explain why Alessandro Canale is such a star in the beach soccer game02:49 \u2013 Kling interviews Alessandro Canale04:05 \u2013 Transition to beach soccer14:50 \u2013 Creativity and art in soccer21:24 \u2013 Biggest accomplishments in the game26:34 \u2013 What makes beach soccer so special29:55 \u2013 Ask the Pros presented by O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts<\/p>\n<p>Hosts: Meghan Klingenberg, David Gass\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Guest: Alessandro Canale<\/p>\n<p>Producer: Matthew Nelson<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ussoccer.com\/podcast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.ussoccer.com\/podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Soccer Podcast presented by Henkel is a production from U.S. Soccer hosted by David Gass, former USWNT star Meghan Klingenberg and USMNT great Alejandro Bedoya. The podcast brings you in-depth interviews with U.S. Soccer stars of the past, present and future. Episodes drop weekly on Wednesdays.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alessandro Canale contains multitudes. The beach soccer star has played in four FIFA Beach Soccer World Cups, scored&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-424149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}