{"id":30682,"date":"2015-01-15T19:40:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T00:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=30682"},"modified":"2015-01-15T21:33:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T02:33:18","slug":"fagundez-debuts-for-uruguay-no-longer-usmnt-eligible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=30682","title":{"rendered":"Fagundez Debuts for Uruguay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30685\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dIEGO1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30685\" data-attachment-id=\"30685\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=30685\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dIEGO1.png?fit=600%2C415\" data-orig-size=\"600,415\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dIEGO1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: Uruguay Football Federation&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dIEGO1.png?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dIEGO1.png?fit=600%2C415\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30685\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dIEGO1.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"Photo credit: Uruguay Football Federation\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dIEGO1.png?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dIEGO1.png?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Uruguay Football Federation<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Any fleeting hopes that Diego Fagundez, who faced a four-year wait for American citizenship, would play for the\u00a0United States\u00a0someday died Thursday in Maldonado where he started for the Uruguay U-20s in\u00a0a\u00a01-0 win over Colombia in Group B\u00a0play of the\u00a0South American Youth Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old\u00a0Revolution Homegrown Player, who\u00a0acquired his green card last year,\u00a0was stationed\u00a0on\u00a0the right side of the midfield\u00a0wearing his familiar number 14 for Uruguay in\u00a0the first match of Group B play. He went 65 minutes before he was spelled by Facundo Castro.\u00a0As a result, he is no longer eligible to play for the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Mauro Arambarri scored the game-winner for Uruguay in the 90+2 minute. Uruguay will return to action on Saturday when they\u00a0face Brazil.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Traveling with team. Yendo para consentrar. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/uruguay?src=hash\">#uruguay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sub20?src=hash\">#sub20<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/JbmfuK4cKK\">pic.twitter.com\/JbmfuK4cKK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 diego fagundez (@DiegoFagundez14) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiegoFagundez14\/status\/554979636170739712\">January 13, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After a quiet 2014 MLS campaign, Fagundez was called into coach Fabio Coito&#8217;s preliminary camp last month, and the teenager made the most of the opportunity. He scored three goals and added an assist across a handful of scrimmages against local squads.<\/p>\n<p>Fagundez was born in Montevideo before emigrating to the U.S. with his family when he was five-years-old. After a stellar 2013 campaign in which he scored a team-best 13 goals\u00a0&#8211; the most by any teenager in MLS history\u00a0&#8211; many American soccer fans hoped that the talented Fagundez would someday suit up for the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>But the applicable\u00a0immigration\u00a0laws required\u00a0Fagundez to wait five years until he was eligible for citizenship, putting off any potential U.S. call-up until 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diego Fagundez is no longer eligible to play for the U.S. after starting for the Uruguay U-20s against Colombia on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[142,891,49,1274,913,892,912],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dIEGO1.png?fit=600%2C415","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30682"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30682"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30697,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30682\/revisions\/30697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}