{"id":343188,"date":"2026-06-19T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343188\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:26:09","slug":"el-paso-native-ricardo-pepi-starting-for-the-united-states-against-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343188\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso native Ricardo Pepi starting for the United States against Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso native Ricardo Pepi will start for the United States against Australia in their second match of the 2026 World Cup. <\/p>\n<p>Pepi replaces Christian Pulisic, who misses out due to a calf injury. <\/p>\n<p>Pepi came off the bench in the 72nd minute in the US opener against Paraguay. <\/p>\n<p>Pepi has appeared 38 times for the USMNT and has scored 13 goals. <\/p>\n<p>Full US starting XI: 24. Freese (GK), 16. Freeman, 3. Richards, 13. Ream, 5. A. Robinson , 4. Adams, 17. Tillman , 2. Dest, 8. McKennie, 9. Pepi , 20. Balogun<\/p>\n<p>The US and Australia kick things off at 1 p.m. in Seattle, and you can catch the game on KFOX14!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso native Ricardo Pepi will start for the United States against Australia in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-343188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}