{"id":26068,"date":"2026-07-04T01:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/26068\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T01:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:57:15","slug":"usa-advances-to-round-of-16-and-fans-express-confidence-ahead-of-belgium-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/26068\/","title":{"rendered":"USA advances to Round of 16 and fans express confidence ahead of Belgium match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) &#8211; The United States men\u2019s national soccer team has officially advanced to the Round of 16 at the World Cup, as the final matches of the Round of 32 concluded Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Local fans said they are feeling optimistic heading into the next stage of the tournament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI\u2019d say that Team USA is actually doing really well,\u201d said Issac, a Team USA fan. \u201cI think I\u2019ve only lost once.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cade Sweeny, another Team USA supporter, said the team\u2019s performance and the tournament\u2019s location have boosted his confidence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cYeah, so I\u2019m feeling pretty confident with Team USA this year,\u201d Sweeny said. \u201cI think they look really good. I think the World Cup being in the United States is really good for soccer in general.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fan Trae Frigetto said he and his friends are looking ahead to the next round, with particular attention on one player. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cMy friends and I are so excited for the USA to come to the next round,\u201d Frigetto said. \u201cBalagan got a red card in the last game, and I hope he just keeps on killing it in this next game.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Round of 16 begins Saturday. Team USA plays Belgium on Monday at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) &#8211; The United States men\u2019s national soccer team has officially advanced to the Round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,14895,14896,6157,2833,14897,1849,14894],"class_list":["post-26068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-grand-junction","tag-mesa-county","tag-team-usa","tag-usa","tag-western-slope","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-support"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116859230367387425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}