{"id":2329,"date":"2014-06-11T14:13:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T18:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/06\/11\/the-underdog-king-of-world-cup-soccer\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:25:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:25:14","slug":"the-underdog-king-of-world-cup-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-underdog-king-of-world-cup-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Underdog King of World Cup Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/clint-dempsey-shutterstock-medium.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11505 lazyload\" alt=\"clint-dempsey-shutterstock-medium\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/clint-dempsey-shutterstock-medium.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"310\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 245px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 245\/310;\" \/><\/a>Going into this summer\u2019s World Cup in Brazil, the U.S. national team is more popular than ever. Why is that? Here\u2019s one theory: America loves playing the underdog. It\u2019s perhaps fitting, then, that the man shouldering America\u2019s underdog soccer fantasies, team captain and Furman alum Clint Dempsey, is the epitome of a dark horse himself. And that is why Dempsey is the perfect player to shoulder Team USA&#8217;s daunting World Cup campaign.\u00a0 Read more in <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/outdoor-adventure\/athletes\/Clint-Dempsey-is-the-World-Cups-Champion-Underdog.html\">Outside Magazine<\/a><\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going into this summer\u2019s World Cup in Brazil, the U.S. national team is more popular than ever. Why is that? Here\u2019s one theory: America loves playing the underdog. It\u2019s perhaps fitting, then, that the man shouldering America\u2019s underdog soccer fantasies, team captain and Furman alum Clint Dempsey, is the epitome of a dark horse himself. And that is why Dempsey is the perfect player to shoulder Team USA&#8217;s daunting World Cup campaign.\u00a0 Read more in\u00a0<b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/outdoor-adventure\/athletes\/Clint-Dempsey-is-the-World-Cups-Champion-Underdog.html\">Outside Magazine<\/a><\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}