{"id":18506,"date":"2013-03-14T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T01:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=18506"},"modified":"2013-03-15T16:46:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T20:46:31","slug":"bengtson-summoned-for-wcqs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=18506","title":{"rendered":"Bengtson Summoned for WCQs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t9my_sMf6jc\" height=\"315\" width=\"455\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>New England Revolution forward Jerry Bengtson will miss the Mar. 23 home opener after\u00a0he was\u00a0called up by Honduras\u00a0on Thursday\u00a0for World Cup Qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old striker will join his Honduras teammates following Saturday&#8217;s Revolution game in Philadelphia. <i>Los Catrachos<\/i>\u00a0are set to face\u00a0Mexico on Mar. 22, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Honduras will then travel to Panama City to meet Panama on Mar. 26.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very happy every time I am called up. It\u2019s very nice,&#8221; Bengtson said a translated statement. &#8220;I\u2019m thrilled to be there with my teammates. I think it&#8217;s a big thrill to every player who is called up, it\u2019s very nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bengtson&#8217;s 10 international goals since signing a designated player contract with the Revolution last summer has made him one of the hottest scorers in CONCACAF. His latest strike\u00a0gave Honduras a\u00a0comeback 2-1 victory over the United States at Estadio Olimpico on Feb. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Revolution head coach Jay Heaps\u00a0quipped\u00a0that his Honduran striker returned to preseason camp\u00a0a day\u00a0after his decisive goal in a &#8220;very humble&#8221; mood. However, Heaps was quick to praise his potent poacher for his desire to get back into the mix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told him he could&#8217;ve taken (that) afternoon to\u00a0do a bike workout,&#8221; Heaps said last week at the club&#8217;s annual media day.\u00a0&#8220;But instead\u00a0he\u00a0wanted to be out on the field with the guys, even if it was just warming up and passing. That showed me a lot about where he wants to be with this club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Bengtson&#8217;s 62nd minute goal helped give the Revolution a 1-0 season opening victory over the Chicago Fire. It was New England&#8217;s first win in the Windy City since 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New England Revolution forward Jerry Bengtson will miss the Mar. 23 home opener after\u00a0he was\u00a0called up by Honduras\u00a0on Thursday\u00a0for World Cup Qualifying. The 25-year-old striker will join his Honduras teammates following Saturday&#8217;s Revolution game in Philadelphia. Los Catrachos\u00a0are set to face\u00a0Mexico on Mar. 22, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Honduras will then travel to Panama [&hellip;]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[322,320,121,1274,321],"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\/18506"}],"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=18506"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18509,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18506\/revisions\/18509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}