{"id":502282,"date":"2025-10-15T19:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/502282\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:47:10","slug":"germany-to-play-friendly-against-usa-in-world-cup-dress-rehearsal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/502282\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany to play friendly against USA in World Cup dress rehearsal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Although the World Cup is still a little while away, the German Football Association (DFB) is busy with pre-tournament preparations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to Bild (via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/imiasanmia\/status\/1978213351940362599?s=46&amp;t=gLe-_YzJmVJHfEjMd8Qkbg\">@iMiaSanMia<\/a>), the final friendly opponents ahead of the World Cup have been finalized. The last opponent before the tournament will be none other than one of the co-hosts, the United States of America. The dress rehearsal will be held in early June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The last time Germany played the USA was two years ago, in Julian Nagelsmann\u2019s first game in charge of the national team. The Germans defeated the Americans on their home turf with goals from \u00cdlkay G\u00fcndo\u011fan, Niclas F\u00fcllkrug, and Jamal Musiala.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Before that, Bild says that Germany will face Ivory Coast, Switzerland, and Finland in the games leading up to the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That said, this is all assuming Germany qualifies for the World Cup, of course. Germany still needs to win their next two games against Luxembourg and Slovakia, or get four points depending on other results, to get to the finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although the World Cup is still a little while away, the German Football Association (DFB) is busy with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,129072,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-502282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-german-national-team-and-international-soccer","11":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115379912366763030","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}