{"id":22016,"date":"2022-12-05T11:02:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T16:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=22016"},"modified":"2022-12-05T11:11:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T16:11:38","slug":"the-u-s-world-cup-teams-defense-is-southern-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-u-s-world-cup-teams-defense-is-southern-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. World Cup team\u2019s defense is Southern strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team USA&#8217;s FIFA World Cup run is over, but after the squad&#8217;s 1-nil win over Iran, <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/articles\/the-u-s-world-cup-teams-defense-is-southern-strong\/\">Garden and Gun<\/a> magazine took the opportunity to highlight a couple of Nashville SC defenders, one of them a Furman University alumnus and Men&#8217;s Soccer standout &#8211; Walker Zimmerman &#8217;15 of Lawrenceville, Georgia. His teammate, Shaq Moore, also hails from the Peach State.<\/p>\n<p>Both are described by Nashville SC general manager Mike Jacobs as \u201cthe best players in their positions in Major League Soccer.\u201d About Zimmerman, Jacobs said, \u201cHe\u2019s competitive and combative &#8211; what you look for in a leader.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Team USA&#8217;s victory over Iran, Southern lifestyle magazine spotlights two Nashville SC defenders, one of them, Walker Zimmerman &#8217;15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":22020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,1729,6],"tags":[1475,1730,1727],"class_list":["post-22016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-garden-and-gun","category-in-the-news","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-furman-mens-soccer","tag-walker-zimmerman"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}