Folarin Balogun played the first half of the United States Men’s National Team’s round of 32 World Cup game against Bosnia-Herzegovina like a king on Wednesday, so it was only fitting he paid homage to one when he buried the opening goal into the back of the net.<\/p>\n
After putting the Americans up 1-0 shortly before halftime, Balogun broke out LeBron James’ signature silencer celebration, and the NBA star loved to see it:<\/p>\n
The goal was well-deserved for Balogun, who scored another one earlier in the half that was called back for offside. He also battled up front and kept the pressure on the Bosnia-Herzegovina defense throughout the opening 45 minutes.<\/p>\n
Balogun just missed yet another goal late in stoppage time in the first half when his shot just sailed above the bar.<\/p>\n
It was more of the same for the striker, who scored two goals in the Americans’ first World Cup game against Paraguay.<\/p>\n
He has been a consistent threat up front and has overwhelmed defenders with his combination of strength and finesse with the ball in his feet.<\/p>\n
Which isn’t that unsimilar from the way James dominates on the basketball court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Folarin Balogun played the first half of the United States Men’s National Team’s round of 32 World Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-738418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738418","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=738418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}