{"id":484536,"date":"2024-06-24T02:04:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T06:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484536"},"modified":"2024-06-24T02:04:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T06:04:53","slug":"us-kicks-off-copa-america-with-2-0-win-over-bolivia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/us-kicks-off-copa-america-with-2-0-win-over-bolivia\/","title":{"rendered":"US kicks-off Copa America with 2-0 win over Bolivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States kicked off their Copa America campaign with a 2-0 victory over Bolivia in Group C, thanks to an early goal from Christian Pulisic. The Americans set the tone right from the start, with Folarin Balogun securing the win with a second goal just before halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The match started aggressively, with Balogun missing an opportunity within the first 20 seconds. However, Christian Pulisic quickly made amends by scoring a spectacular goal from the edge of the box in the third minute, marking his 30th goal in 69 international appearances. Pulisic&#8217;s first international goal also came against Bolivia back in May 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. doubled their lead in the 44th minute when Pulisic provided an assist to Balogun, who ended his six-match goal drought in international play with a precise shot into the bottom corner. Despite their dominance, the U.S. couldn&#8217;t add to their tally in the second half, with substitute Ricardo Pepi being denied four times by Bolivian goalkeeper Guillermo Viscarra.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Team USA starts their tournament strong with a 2-0 win over Bolivia \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CA2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CA2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XLsX582E7N\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XLsX582E7N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1805026658816086097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With this victory, the U.S. look ahead to their next match against CONCACAF rivals Panama on Thursday in Atlanta, while Bolivia will face Uruguay in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BXregW4lARM?si=fDaKwuomxrFI7TPY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States kicked off their Copa America campaign with a 2-0 victory over Bolivia in Group C, thanks to an early goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":484538,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16889,22265,19397],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[19227,22266,19398],"acf":{"announce":"Christian Pulisic needed just three minutes to score the first goal ","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484540,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484536\/revisions\/484540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484536"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484536"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}