{"id":1781,"date":"2014-05-22T18:53:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T22:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2014-05-22T18:53:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T22:53:41","slug":"landon-donovan-left-off-us-world-cup-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2014\/05\/22\/landon-donovan-left-off-us-world-cup-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Landon Donovan left off US World Cup Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/05\/landondonovan.jpg\" alt=\"landondonovan\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/05\/landondonovan.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/05\/landondonovan-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nLandon Donovan is not on the 23-man World Cup roster for the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Donovan had been rumored to be out of a spot on the team but alas nothing was confirmed until today.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Taylor Twellman first broke the news and it was quickly confirmed by US Soccer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23USMNT&amp;src=hash\">#USMNT<\/a> 2014 FIFA World Cup Roster: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/2tbgvIdWjC\">http:\/\/t.co\/2tbgvIdWjC<\/a> \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/J_Klinsmann\">@j_klinsmann<\/a> Names His 23: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/yPlLTRpTup\">http:\/\/t.co\/yPlLTRpTup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23OneNationOneTeam&amp;src=hash\">#OneNationOneTeam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%231N1T&amp;src=hash\">#1N1T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; U.S. Soccer (@ussoccer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ussoccer\/statuses\/469595402027945984\">May 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The absence of Donovan is more of shock by name factor. He was not going to make a difference in what is expected to be a quick first round exit by the US Men&#8217;s team. This year&#8217;s team has a roster full of youth which could at-least bode well for the future of the club if nothing else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landon Donovan is not on the 23-man World Cup roster for the United States. The 32-year-old Donovan had been rumored to be out of a spot on the team but alas nothing was confirmed until today. ESPN&#8217;s Taylor Twellman first broke the news and it was quickly confirmed by US Soccer. The #USMNT 2014 FIFA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[125],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-landon-donovan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}