{"id":382269,"date":"2026-07-01T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382269\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:33:08","slug":"usa-captain-tim-ream-on-playing-in-the-world-cup-at-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382269\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Captain Tim Ream on Playing in the World Cup at 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Four years later, he could have retired to spend more time with his children, who are now 12, 10, and 7. These are prime parenting years, and in a sense, he has chosen soccer. But he insists the decision was a win-win. \u201cIf a professional athlete tells you that they&#8217;re not selfish in a lot of ways and in a lot of moments in their career, they&#8217;re lying to you,\u201d says Ream. \u201cWe have to be. As my kids have gotten older, they&#8217;re actually to the point now where they&#8217;re like, \u2018Well, dad, you&#8217;re the oldest one, but we don&#8217;t want you to retire. We get to enjoy these moments with you. We know you&#8217;re away, but it&#8217;s also really cool to share in these core memories that we&#8217;re making.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four years later, he could have retired to spend more time with his children, who are now 12,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,1083,5393],"class_list":["post-382269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-soccer","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382269","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=382269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}