{"id":701232,"date":"2026-06-13T06:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T06:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/701232\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T06:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T06:44:08","slug":"united-states-dominates-paraguay-in-emphatic-opening-win-4-1-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/701232\/","title":{"rendered":"United States dominates Paraguay in emphatic opening win, 4-1 | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, Calif. &#8211; The United States sure made an entrance for their first-hosted FIFA World Cup match in 32 years.<\/p>\n<p>The United States men&#8217;s national team (USMNT) crushed Paraguay, 4-1, to not only open the 2026 FIFA World Cup atop Group D, but also break the record for their most goals scored in any World Cup match.<\/p>\n<p>Defender Chris Richards also broke the record for the most completed 100% accurate passes (83), all done in his first match recovered from a lower leg injury.<\/p>\n<p>Falorin Balogun scored twice, becoming the first American with multiple goals in one World Cup match since Bert Patenaude&#8217;s hat trick in 1930.<\/p>\n<p>The USA next faces Australia next Friday, June 12, at noon in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>COPYRIGHT 2026 BY KXLY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES, Calif. &#8211; The United States sure made an entrance for their first-hosted FIFA World Cup match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,8456,3,99,41201,452,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-701232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-national-sports","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-storytracker","tag-top-stories","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\/701232","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=701232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}