{"id":234845,"date":"2026-06-23T12:54:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=234845"},"modified":"2026-06-23T12:54:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:54:32","slug":"matt-crocker-leaves-u-s-soccer-for-saudi-arabia-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=234845","title":{"rendered":"Matt Crocker leaves U.S. Soccer for Saudi Arabia role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Soccer sporting director Matt Crocker has stepped down from his role for a new opportunity in Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 Crocker, 50, has left his current role and will take up a similar role with the Saudi Arabia Football Federation, U.S. Soccer announced Tuesday. Assistant sporting director Oguchi Onyewu&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sbisoccer.com\/2026\/04\/matt-crocker-leaves-u-s-soccer-for-saudi-arabia-role\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Soccer sporting director Matt Crocker has stepped down from his role for a new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234845-matt-crocker-leaves-us-soccer-for-saudi-arabia-role.png",1210,690,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234845-matt-crocker-leaves-us-soccer-for-saudi-arabia-role-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234845-matt-crocker-leaves-us-soccer-for-saudi-arabia-role-300x171.png",300,171,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234845-matt-crocker-leaves-us-soccer-for-saudi-arabia-role-768x438.png",640,365,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234845-matt-crocker-leaves-us-soccer-for-saudi-arabia-role-1024x584.png",640,365,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234845-matt-crocker-leaves-us-soccer-for-saudi-arabia-role.png",1210,690,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234845-matt-crocker-leaves-us-soccer-for-saudi-arabia-role.png",1210,690,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234845-matt-crocker-leaves-us-soccer-for-saudi-arabia-role-1024x584.png",1024,584,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234845-matt-crocker-leaves-us-soccer-for-saudi-arabia-role-825x575.png",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234845-matt-crocker-leaves-us-soccer-for-saudi-arabia-role-590x410.png",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/234846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}