{"id":787985,"date":"2026-05-11T04:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/787985\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T04:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:16:12","slug":"nwsl-kansas-city-current-beat-chicago-stars-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/787985\/","title":{"rendered":"NWSL: Kansas City Current beat Chicago Stars 3-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time reigning NWSL MVP Temwa Chawinga scored all three goals in host Kansas City\u2019s 3-0 victory against the Chicago Stars on Sunday for the Current\u2019s first regular-season hat trick.<\/p>\n<p>Off a deflection from defender Sam Staab and an assist from Croix Bethune, Chawinga opened scoring for the Current (4-4-0) in the 22nd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Stars goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher attempted to cut off a cross, but the rebound landed in the path of Chawinga in the 47th for the brace. Two minutes later, Michelle Cooper\u2019s short lofted pass found Chawinga and she completed the hat trick.<\/p>\n<p>Current goalkeeper Lorena made three saves for her first clean sheet of the season.<\/p>\n<p>It was Chawinga\u2019s first hat trick and the first of the 2026 NWSL season.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars (2-7-0) have lost three straight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time reigning NWSL MVP Temwa Chawinga scored all three goals in host Kansas City\u2019s 3-0 victory against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":787986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,11436,5386,1818,65186,321966,89079],"class_list":{"0":"post-787985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-stars","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-kansas-city-current","13":"tag-nwsl-scores","14":"tag-temwa-chawinga"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116554012152001510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}