{"id":200654,"date":"2021-12-19T05:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T05:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/cole-bassett-s-late-goal-gives-u-s-men-s-soccer-team-a-record-setting-victory"},"modified":"2021-12-19T05:22:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T05:22:29","slug":"cole-bassett-s-late-goal-gives-u-s-men-s-soccer-team-a-record-setting-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/cole-bassett-s-late-goal-gives-u-s-men-s-soccer-team-a-record-setting-victory","title":{"rendered":"Cole Bassett&#8217;s late goal gives U.S. men&#8217;s soccer team a record-setting victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States was minutes away from letting a pitch invader at Dignity Health Sports Park be the only one to score a goal during Saturday&#8217;s international friendly against Bosnia and Herzegovina. Cole Bassett saved the Americans from what would have been a drab ending to the year. The Colorado Rapids midfielder scored the game-winning goal in his national team debut, powering the United States to a 1-0 win with his 89th-minute score. Bassett&#8217;s late score secured the United States&#8217; record-setting 17th win of the year. The Americans tied their team record with their 12th shutout of the year, which came against a team that played the entire second half with 10 men after Begic Amar earned a straight red card in the 40th minute for smashing Kellyn Acosta&#8217;s ankle on a tackle. The disqualification was &#8220;the worst thing that happened&#8221; to the United States, coach Gregg Berhalter said as it sent Bosnia and Herzegovina into a compact shell. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cole Bassett makes a case for a January call-up with a game-winning goal as the U.S. beats Bosnia and Herzegovina 1-0 for its 17th victory of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,1],"tags":[147,138,58],"class_list":["post-200654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mls","category-news","tag-mls","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}