{"id":28822,"date":"2025-08-27T16:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/balogun-returns-to-usmnt-key-reinforcement-for-friendlies-vs-korea-and-japan\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T16:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:31:38","slug":"balogun-returns-to-usmnt-key-reinforcement-for-friendlies-vs-korea-and-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/balogun-returns-to-usmnt-key-reinforcement-for-friendlies-vs-korea-and-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Balogun Returns to USMNT: Key Reinforcement for Friendlies vs. Korea and Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"Folarin Balogun joins the United States men&#8217;s national soccer team for the September friendlies against South Korea and Japan. The AS Monaco striker will join the national team for the first time in a year.\n\nBalogun was the last addition to the list after coach Mauricio Pochettino announced a 22-player squad on Tuesday, with the United States Soccer Federation indicating that a spot would be filled later.\n\nVancouver Whitecaps forward Brian White will not participate in the camp due to a hamstring injury suffered against St. Louis City on Saturday.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Balogun has been a regular starter in the center forward position, with 17 matches and five goals since his debut in 2023.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0827%2Fr1537567_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Folarin Balogun\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Folarin Balogun tendr\u00e1 la oportunidad de impresionar al entrenador de la selecci\u00f3n estadounidense, Mauricio Pochettino.  ANP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nBalogun has yet to play since Pochettino took over last year due to a series of injury problems.\n\nThe 24-year-old player was out for a large part of last season due to a shoulder injury. Although he returned to Monaco before the end of the campaign, he had to withdraw from the US national team&#8217;s Gold Cup roster this summer due to an ankle injury.\n\nBalogun made his season debut on Sunday in Monaco&#8217;s 1-0 defeat to Lille in Ligue 1.\n\nThe United States will face South Korea on September 6 in Harrison, New Jersey, followed by the match against Japan three days later in Columbus, Ohio.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folarin Balogun joins the United States men&#8217;s national soccer team for the September friendlies against South Korea and Japan. The AS Monaco striker will join the national team for the first time in a year. Balogun was the last addition to the list after coach Mauricio Pochettino announced a 22-player squad on Tuesday, with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3301,2822,355,2075],"class_list":{"0":"post-28822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-folarin-balogun","9":"tag-friendlies","10":"tag-injuries","11":"tag-usmnt"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}