{"id":94603,"date":"2025-05-12T05:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T05:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/94603\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T05:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T05:55:11","slug":"west-brom-striker-daryl-dikes-big-usa-dreams-ahead-of-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/94603\/","title":{"rendered":"West Brom striker Daryl Dike’s big USA dreams ahead of 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just two of Dike’s 10 caps for the United States of America have come during his injury-ravaged three-and-a-half years at The Hawthorns.<\/p>\n

The striker’s last call-up and outings for the national side were more than two years ago, in March 2023, during Nations League ties against Grenada and El Salvador.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma-born Dike returned to the Baggies<\/a>‘ starting line-up with a goal against Luton on the final day and says he has dreams of representing his nation in a World Cup – with next summer’s edition held in the States, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n

“For sure it’s one of my goals,” said a determined Dike. “I think every single footballer has always dreamed of playing in a World Cup.<\/p>\n

“With the World Cup coming next summer of course I’d love to be a part of that squad.<\/p>\n

“I think any time you’re able to represent your country it’s an honour, especially on the big stage like that. Of course I’ll be working towards that, all through the off-season and the season.”<\/p>\n

\"EDITORIALDaryl Dike celebrates his goal against Luton. (Photo by Adam Fradgley\/West Bromwich Albion FC via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Dike is a self-confessed football obsessive. His boyhood British club was Chelsea but he revealed he consumes all football.<\/p>\n

The powerful frontman turns 25 in June as he enters the final year of his Albion contract.<\/p>\n

But Dike, who has started just 18 times for Albion amid a total of around two years on the sidelines, is confident time is still on his side he can achieve his dreams<\/p>\n

“I’m a football fan, everybody in the squad knows I watch every single game, every player, I’m always watching and have dreams of football, whether it’s Champions League football or World Cups,” he added.<\/p>\n

“I always tell myself that I’m only 24 years old and can still achieve every one of those dreams.<\/p>\n

“Even though I may have fallen down I can still get back up, keep going and keep running and have the chance to prove myself and everyone I can still do it and achieve my dreams.”<\/p>\n

Dike was a regular goalscorer for his first senior club Orlando City in the MLS. He also enjoyed a prolific Championship loan at Barnsley, under Valerien Ismael, who having being appointed at Albion made the \u00a37million move to make that deal permanent in January 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just two of Dike’s 10 caps for the United States of America have come during his injury-ravaged three-and-a-half…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[94,93,49,978,659,2785],"class_list":{"0":"post-94603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sport","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-usa","13":"tag-west-bromwich-albion"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114493320454081732","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94603","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=94603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}