{"id":269811,"date":"2026-04-15T23:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/269811\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:25:09","slug":"heaps-scores-in-san-jose-but-japan-breaks-american-streak-in-seattle-los-gatan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/269811\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaps scores in San Jose, but Japan breaks American streak in Seattle | Los Gatan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/losgatan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/04\/Womens-Soccer1-goal.jpg\" data-caption=\"GOAL - Pictured: Lindsey Heaps scoring at PayPal Park in San Jose, April 11. (Faizi Samadani \/ Los Gatan)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Womens-Soccer1-goal-696x464.jpg\"  data- alt=\"PayPal park goal by Lindsey Heaps\" title=\"Women's Soccer1 - goal\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 696px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 696\/464;\"\/><\/a>GOAL &#8211; Pictured: Lindsey Heaps scoring at PayPal Park in San Jose, April 11. (Faizi Samadani \/ Los Gatan)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcapp4\">Less than three minutes into the second half, Lindsey Heaps put the ball into the net at PayPal Park in San Jose, in the 2-1 victory against Japan on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>But when they played their second of three matches against the squad last night in Seattle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussoccer.com\/stories\/2026\/04\/uswnt\/us-womens-national-team-falls-to-japan-match-recap-seattle-lumen-field\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Americans lost 1-0, ending a 10-game streak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC0285.jpg\" alt=\"Faizi Samadani's photo of Japan vs. USA\" class=\"wp-image-31816\"  \/>RIVALS \u2013 Saturday was Japan\u2019s first match since the shock dismissal of coach Nils Nielsen. (Faizi Samadani \/ Los Gatan)<\/p>\n<p>Japan recently won the Women\u2019s Asian Cup. After that success, their coach, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DWqRAkGjE2-\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nils Nielsen, was surprisingly ousted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Riko Ueki scored Japan\u2019s lone goal in the San Jose match, while Jose Lavelle got the first for Team USA.<\/p>\n<p>The teams are getting ready to play in Colorado on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GOAL &#8211; Pictured: Lindsey Heaps scoring at PayPal Park in San Jose, April 11. (Faizi Samadani \/ Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[87806,88,90,89,12903],"class_list":{"0":"post-269811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-paypal-park","9":"tag-san-jose","10":"tag-san-jose-headlines","11":"tag-san-jose-news","12":"tag-womens-soccer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}