{"id":90719,"date":"2026-06-13T17:44:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90719"},"modified":"2026-06-13T17:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:44:33","slug":"folarin-baloguns-pregnant-mom-was-barred-from-leaving-the-us-now-hes-americas-world-cup-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/13\/folarin-baloguns-pregnant-mom-was-barred-from-leaving-the-us-now-hes-americas-world-cup-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Folarin Balogun&#8217;s pregnant mom was barred from leaving the US, now he&#8217;s America&#8217;s World Cup hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA25zvOk.img?w=634&h=454&m=6&x=237&y=49&s=161&d=242\" alt=\"Folarin Balogun became the USA's newest World Cup hero with two goals against Paraguay\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The morning after a night when the USA made history \u2013 never before had this team scored four goals in a World Cup game; not since 1930 had any American player scored more than once in a single World Cup match. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/folarin-balogun-s-pregnant-mom-was-barred-from-leaving-the-us-now-he-s-america-s-world-cup-hero\/ar-AA25zgrQ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a2d8ae51fa842c4990f96c86fad7d6c&ei=25\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The morning after a night when the USA made history \u2013 never before had this team scored four goals in a World&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Folarin-Balogun.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90721,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90719\/revisions\/90721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}