{"id":35572,"date":"2022-06-27T10:30:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T10:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/hern-ndez-gareth-bale-signing-with-lafc-showcases-how-u-s-is-winning-over-european-stars"},"modified":"2022-06-27T10:30:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T10:30:40","slug":"hern-ndez-gareth-bale-signing-with-lafc-showcases-how-u-s-is-winning-over-european-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/hern-ndez-gareth-bale-signing-with-lafc-showcases-how-u-s-is-winning-over-european-stars","title":{"rendered":"Hern&#225;ndez: Gareth Bale signing with LAFC showcases how U.S. is winning over European stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, let me get this right: LAFC is helping Gareth Bale take down the United States? Once the world&#8217;s most expensive soccer player, Bale signed a cut-rate deal with LAFC because the team can guarantee the Welsh attacker the minutes necessary to prepare for the World Cup. The opponent for Wales in its group-stage opener on Nov. 21: the U.S. &#8220;I&#8217;ve asked that he take that game off,&#8221; LAFC general manager John Thorrington said with a laugh. Thorrington recalled kidding Bale about the U.S.-Wales showdown by telling him, &#8220;You&#8217;re going to be peaking after. We&#8217;ll set up your periodization so that you&#8217;re not quite ready for that game.&#8221; Save for the potential consequences for the U.S. national team, the one-year contract with the man-bunned Bale has absolutely no downside for LAFC. Bale, who turns 33 next month, will be paid $1.3 million &#8212; or about what he earned in two weeks with his previous team, Real Madrid of Spain. He<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welsh soccer star Gareth Bale&#8217;s stateside move has zero downsides for LAFC, and it shows how top-tier players are content with playing in MLS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[147,138,58],"class_list":["post-35572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-mls","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35572","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=35572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}