{"id":4225,"date":"2026-05-29T19:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:19:13","slug":"usa-midfielder-brenden-aaronson-gets-leave-from-world-cup-training-for-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=4225","title":{"rendered":"USA Midfielder Brenden Aaronson Gets Leave From World Cup Training For Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>American midfielder Brenden Aaronson had a good excuse to miss the U.S. World Cup team&#8217;s training session Friday \u2014 he was getting married.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>The Leeds midfielder is marrying longtime girlfriend Milana D\u2019Ambra, a daughter of Saint Joseph\u2019s men\u2019s soccer coach Don D\u2019Ambra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Aaronson, also a member of the 2022 U.S. World Cup squad, left camp after Thursday&#8217;s session and was due back in time for training Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>A 25-year-old with Leeds in the Premier League, Aaronson is part of a well-known U.S. soccer family from Medford, New Jersey. His brother Paxten is with Major League Soccer&#8217;s Colorado Rapids and sister Jaden played for Villanova as a freshman last fall. Their father, Rusty, is sporting director of Real Futbol Academy in Medford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>The U.S. team allowed star Christian Pulisic to skip training to attend his Hershey High School prom on May 27, 2016, at the Hershey Hotel in Pennsylvania, then return for the following day\u2019s Copa Am\u00e9rica match against Bolivia in Kansas City, Kansas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14><i>Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY American midfielder Brenden Aaronson had a good excuse to miss the U.S. World Cup team&#8217;s training session Friday \u2014 he was getting married. The Leeds midfielder is marrying longtime girlfriend Milana D\u2019Ambra, a daughter of Saint Joseph\u2019s men\u2019s soccer coach Don D\u2019Ambra. Aaronson, also a member of the 2022 U.S. World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}