{"id":43140,"date":"2016-05-22T20:50:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T00:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=43140"},"modified":"2016-05-22T20:57:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T00:57:09","slug":"u-s-debutant-arriola-scores-assists-in-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=43140","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Debutant Arriola Scores, Assists in Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.espn.com\/player.js?playerBrandingId=7f85f640d356489798d964a67a833280&#038;adSetCode=5d80a8f4a1f545b0944606ef39cf05e2&#038;pcode=B4a3E63GKeEtO92XK7NI067ak980&#038;width=576&#038;height=324&#038;externalId=intl:2877788&#038;thruParam_espn-ui[autoPlay]=false&#038;thruParam_espn-ui[playRelatedExternally]=true\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>U.S. debutant Paul Arriola scored hist first international goal to help his squad secure a 3-1 win their first-ever meeting with Puerto Rico on Sunday at Juan Ram\u00f3n Loubriel Stadium in Bayam\u00f3n, Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>Arriola collected his first goal for the senior side in the 56th minute on a ball set up by Boston College alum Alejandro Bedoya, who donned the captain&#8217;s armband for the first time during his international career. <\/p>\n<p>Prior to his debut tally, the 21-year-old forward set up the second goal of the game, which came from a Bobby Wood chip in the 34th minute. Longtime U.S. defender Tim Ream also scored his first international goal top open the account in the 20th minute.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Debut, a goal, and an assist. God is GOOD! Thanks to everyone for the kind words and msgs. You guys are amazing!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/91e1uSjW30\">pic.twitter.com\/91e1uSjW30<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paul Arriola (@PaulArriola) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulArriola\/status\/734520853967298560\">May 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Puerto Rico&#8217;s lone goal came from Luis Betancur in the 42nd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Guzan and Tim Howard split the goalkeeping chores for the U.S., with the former starting the first half and the latter getting the nod after the break.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. will return to action on Wednesday when they meet Ecuador for an international friendly at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Tx. at 8:00pm ET. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Arriola scored and assisted in his international debut to help the U.S. beat Puerto Rico 3-1 on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43141,"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":[22],"tags":[891,1545,1544,892,1279],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Arriola-1.png?fit=600%2C415&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43140"}],"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=43140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43143,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43140\/revisions\/43143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}