{"id":4655,"date":"2026-06-13T01:44:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=4655"},"modified":"2026-06-13T01:44:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:44:25","slug":"usa-takes-early-lead-in-world-cup-opener-vs-paraguay-due-to-own-goal-in-7th-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=4655","title":{"rendered":"USA Takes Early Lead In World Cup Opener vs. Paraguay Due To Own Goal In 7th Minute"},"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>Things couldn&#8217;t have started much better for the United States in its World Cup opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>In the seventh minute of the United States&#8217; Group A match against Paraguay at Los Angeles Stadium, the Americans were gifted an own goal that gave them an early lead \u2014 so early that it&#8217;s actually the third-fastest goal for the U.S. in World Cup history. Paraguay midfielder Dami\u00e1n Bobadilla was credited with the own goal. Weston McKennie was the last U.S. player to touch the ball in the run of play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>The U.S. has scored a goal in the first 15 minutes of a World Cup match six times in history, with three coming against Paraguay (two in 1930 and one tonight). The two earliest goals for the U.S. in a home<i><strong> <\/strong><\/i>World Cup match have both been own goal: on Friday against Paraguay and against Colombia in 1994.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Clint Dempsey holds the record for the fastest goal by a U.S. player at a FIFA Men&#8217;s World Cup with a 30-second goal vs. Ghana at Brazil 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>The U.S. has only lost one time at the World Cup when scoring first. Its only loss came against Spain in 1950.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Things couldn&#8217;t have started much better for the United States in its World Cup opener. In the seventh minute of the United States&#8217; Group A match against Paraguay at Los Angeles Stadium, the Americans were gifted an own goal that gave them an early lead \u2014 so early that it&#8217;s actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4655","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\/4655","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=4655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}