{"id":701904,"date":"2026-05-29T16:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/701904\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:27:21","slug":"altar-ed-plans-us-midfielder-gets-one-day-leave-from-world-cup-training-for-his-own-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/701904\/","title":{"rendered":"Altar-ed plans: US midfielder gets one-day leave from World Cup training for his own wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) \u2014 American midfielder Brenden Aaronson had a good excuse to miss the U.S. World Cup team\u2019s training session Friday \u2014 he was getting married.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Leeds midfielder is marrying longtime girlfriend Milana D\u2019Ambra, a daughter of Saint Joseph\u2019s men\u2019s soccer coach Don D\u2019Ambra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Aaronson, also a member of the 2022 U.S. World Cup squad, left camp after Thursday\u2019s session and was due back in time for training Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 25-year-old with Leeds in the Premier League, Aaronson is part of a well-known U.S. soccer family from Medford, New Jersey. His brother Paxten is with Major League Soccer\u2019s Colorado Rapids and sister Jaden played for Villanova as a freshman last fall. Their father, Rusty, is sporting director of Real Futbol Academy in Medford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The U.S. team allowed star Christian Pulisic to skip training to attend his Hershey High School prom on May 27, 2016, at the Hershey Hotel in Pennsylvania, then return for the following day\u2019s Copa America match against Bolivia in Kansas City, Kansas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP World Cup: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/fifa-world-cup<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) \u2014 American midfielder Brenden Aaronson had a good excuse to miss the U.S. World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,77,561,82],"class_list":["post-701904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-international","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701904","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=701904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}