{"id":41286,"date":"2026-04-14T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/14\/us-soccer-sporting-director-matt-crocker-leaves-for-role-with-saudi-arabia-as-world-cup-looms-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:59:00","slug":"us-soccer-sporting-director-matt-crocker-leaves-for-role-with-saudi-arabia-as-world-cup-looms-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/14\/us-soccer-sporting-director-matt-crocker-leaves-for-role-with-saudi-arabia-as-world-cup-looms-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"US Soccer sporting director Matt Crocker leaves for role with Saudi Arabia as World Cup looms &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilgFBVV95cUxOZ3hFb0xlYW9yTkNSdXhtRUZ4R0tTeW1uWDBHSTlMeEFBcUItSEk0bFhROVA2V1FHM0lUUGVTcFU3eUpwU2JpX011bUdHRm9IMWQ0Qk56SENTVDZUZnhZUVRPQXZZZzBuZ0c3X1B1TG91Vno3VlFYRS1iSmpLaGRsOW1uSUxVOWYweUIzT05kZ0tQTGc4Z0E?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">US Soccer sporting director Matt Crocker leaves for role with Saudi Arabia as World Cup looms<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Guardian<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Soccer sporting director Matt Crocker leaves for role with Saudi Arabia as World Cup looms&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}