{"id":333460,"date":"2026-05-26T22:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333460\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T22:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:15:07","slug":"fresno-native-max-arfsten-makes-2026-usmnt-world-cup-roster-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333460\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Native Max Arfsten Makes 2026 USMNT World Cup Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0Fresno native and San Joaquin Memorial alum Max Arfsten has officially made the 2026 World Cup U.S. men\u2019s national team roster.<\/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\u2019s 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 \">This will be the second time in recent years that the Central Valley has been represented on the world stage. Fellow Fresno native and Bullard alum\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/lynn-williams-womens-world-cup-fresno-native-us-women-roster\/13411420\/\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lynn Williams<\/a>\u00a0was a part of the U.S women\u2019s roster for the 2023 Women\u2019s 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0Fresno native and San Joaquin Memorial alum Max Arfsten has officially made the 2026 World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-333460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333460","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=333460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}