{"id":16286,"date":"2012-10-17T23:56:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T03:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=16286"},"modified":"2012-10-18T00:12:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T04:12:19","slug":"bengtson-bags-hat-trick-for-honduras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=16286","title":{"rendered":"Bengtson Bags Hat Trick for Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13535\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=13535\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13535\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13535\" data-attachment-id=\"13535\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=13535\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/JerryBengtson1.png?fit=455%2C253&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"455,253\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"JerryBengtson1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Revolution striker Jerry Bengtson, seen here in a July match against New York, scored the game winner against the Red Bulls on Saturday. (Photo: Kari Heistad\/CapturedImages.biz)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/JerryBengtson1.png?fit=300%2C166&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/JerryBengtson1.png?fit=455%2C253&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13535\" title=\"JerryBengtson1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/JerryBengtson1.png?resize=455%2C253\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/JerryBengtson1.png?w=455&amp;ssl=1 455w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/JerryBengtson1.png?resize=300%2C166&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Revolution striker Jerry Bengtson recorded a hat trick for Honduras in an 8-1 thrashing of Canada in Tuesday&#8217;s World Cup Qualifier. (Photo: Kari Heistad\/CapturedImages.biz)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Revolution striker Jerry Bengtson\u00a0tallied three times for Honduras in Tuesday&#8217;s 8-1 World Cup Qualifier win\u00a0against Canada in San Pedro Sula (Honduras).<\/p>\n<p>Bengtson\u00a0scored in the 7th, 17th and 83rd minutes, while former Houston Dynamo\u00a0forward Carlo Costly also netted a trio of his own in the 29th, 48th and 89th minutes. With the win, Honduras advances to the Hexagonal, while Canada has been eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>The Revolution striker\u00a0will return to Foxboro this week, and is expected to suit up for Saturday&#8217;s home finale against the Chicago Fire.<\/p>\n<p>In 11 games for the Revolution, Bengtson has collected two goals, but hasn&#8217;t scored since an Aug. 25 match at Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>Since signing a designated player deal with the Revolution in July, the 25-year-old forward has scored six times for Honduras, including three goals\u00a0during their Olympic campaign in London over the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Bengtson collected three goals for Honduras on Tuesday in an 8-1 romping over Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16286"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16297,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16286\/revisions\/16297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}