{"id":33478,"date":"2019-02-27T18:23:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T18:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33478"},"modified":"2019-02-27T18:23:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T18:23:35","slug":"sports-power-couple-when-we-play-for-a-bigger-purpose-we-play-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33478","title":{"rendered":"Sport&#8217;s power couple: &#8216;When we play for a bigger purpose we play better&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Aged 26, Julie Ertz already knows what it is like to win a World Cup. The defensive midfielder, the second-youngest member of the US squad in 2015, can talk about the joy of winning the biggest prize in women&#8217;s soccer, of how onerous a month-long tournament can be and how becoming a world champion &#8220;makes you hungry for more.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">This summer she will aim to help her country to a successful defense of the title won four years ago though, she admits, being considered one of the veterans in Jill Ellis&#8217; squad, now that stalwarts like <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/16\/football\/abby-wambach-us-soccer-equality-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Abby Wambach,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/19\/football\/hope-solo-us-soccer-world-cup-2026-spt\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hope Solo<\/a> and Christie Pearce have since departed, is &#8220;weird.&#8221; <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">After a period of adjustment, the low point coming in a quarterfinal defeat by Sweden at the Rio Olympics, US preparations have fallen into place over the last 12 months. The team went through 2018 unbeaten &#8212; 17 wins and two draws cementing its position at the top of the world rankings and, with a 100 days to go to the start of France 2019, Ellis&#8217; squad are favorites for what would be a fourth title for the US. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Aged 26, Julie Ertz already knows what it is like to win a World Cup. The defensive midfielder, the second-youngest member of the US squad in 2015, can talk about the joy of winning the biggest prize in women&#8217;s soccer, of how onerous a month-long tournament can be and how becoming a world champion &#8220;makes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}