{"id":42566,"date":"2026-06-12T13:56:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=42566"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:00:33","slug":"clint-dempsey-talks-world-cup-and-more-with-fox-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/clint-dempsey-talks-world-cup-and-more-with-fox-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Clint Dempsey talks World Cup and more with FOX Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University Men&#8217;s Soccer standout and US Men&#8217;s National Team legend Clint Dempsey &#8217;03 took a moment to speak with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/video\/2026\/06\/11\/palmetto-sports-ella-grogan-1-on-1-with-furman-usmnt-soccer-legend-clint-dempsey\/\">FOX Carolina<\/a> reporter and Furman alum Ella Grogan &#8217;25 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/majors-minors-programs\/communication-studies-major\/\">communication studies<\/a>) at the BMW Charity Pro-Am. Dempsey, the first American man to score three goals in three different World Cups, spoke about giving back to Greenville, the opportunities presented by Furman and former Head Coach Doug Allison, and his predictions for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dempsey &#8217;03 speaks with Ella Grogan &#8217;25 about giving back to Greenville, his foundational experience at Furman and his predictions for the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":42568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,51,1569,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-communication-studies","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42566","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=42566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42570,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42566\/revisions\/42570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}