{"id":552030,"date":"2026-03-29T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/552030\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:06:12","slug":"belgium-beats-united-states-5-2-in-atlanta-friendly-ahead-of-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/552030\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium beats United States 5-2 in Atlanta friendly ahead of 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, March 29 (SANA) Belgium defeated the United States 5-2 in an international friendly in Atlanta on Saturday, as both teams continued preparations for the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/tag\/2026-fifa-world-cup\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"17985\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA World Cup<\/a>.<br \/>The<a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/tag\/united-states\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"13886\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> United States<\/a> took the lead in the 39th minute through Weston McKennie, but Belgium equalized just before halftime with a goal from Zeno Debast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/tag\/belgium\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"14840\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belgium<\/a> took control in the second half, with Amadou Onana and Charles De Ketelaere scoring to put the visitors ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Dodi Lukebakio added two more goals to extend the lead, sealing a dominant performance by the Belgian side.<\/p>\n<p>The United States pulled one back late in the match, but were unable to close the gap.<\/p>\n<p>R.H<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta, March 29 (SANA) Belgium defeated the United States 5-2 in an international friendly in Atlanta on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-552030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}