{"id":333272,"date":"2026-05-26T19:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333272\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:55:11","slug":"fresno-native-max-arfsten-makes-2026-usmnt-world-cup-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333272\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno native Max Arfsten makes 2026 USMNT World Cup roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marc Anthony Lopez Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/13437642_062823-kfsn-marc-lopez-bio-img.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, May 26, 2026 7:51PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Fresno's Max Arfsten talks call up to U.S. Men's National Soccer team\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Fresno native and San Joaquin Memorial alum Max Arfsten has officially made the 2026 World Cup U.S. men&#8217;s national team roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The video above is from a related story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The full 26-man roster was officially revealed on Tuesday during an event in New York. This will be Arfsten&#8217;s first World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Arfsten, 25, plays for the MLS club Columbus Crew and has made 18 caps, including five starts, scoring one goal for the U.S. national team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Arfsten has recently earned call-ups for international friendlies as preparation for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The USMNT will play in two send-off friendlies against Senegal and Germany before kicking off its World Cup group play against Paraguay on June 12 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, May 26, 2026 7:51PM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Fresno native and San Joaquin Memorial alum Max Arfsten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[137986,112,114,137985,113,294],"class_list":["post-333272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-137986","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-native-max-arfsten-makes-2026-usmnt-world-cup-roster","tag-fresno-news","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333272","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=333272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}