{"id":1198,"date":"2025-07-06T16:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T16:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2025-07-06T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T16:23:06","slug":"luna-parlayed-a-life-changing-moment-into-a-gold-cup-final-he-dreamt-of-as-a-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/luna-parlayed-a-life-changing-moment-into-a-gold-cup-final-he-dreamt-of-as-a-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Luna parlayed a \u2018life-changing\u2019 moment into a Gold Cup final he dreamt of as a kid\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1202\" src=\"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_8946-300x164.jpeg\" alt=\"HOUSTON \u2014 The Luna family would gather whenever f\u00fatbol called them, but especially, invariably, for occasions like this one. Roughly once per year, parents, siblings and others would assemble around a TV for a soccer game that, as the youngest son now says, is \u201cin my blood.\u201d The U.S. and Mexico men\u2019s national teams would meet in Ohio or Mexico City, in Chicago or Pasadena. And back in Sunnyvale, California, the Lunas, like thousands of Mexican American families, would cook up hamburgers or enchiladas; don their favorite jerseys; and cheer or cry through a rivalry that divides and unites. So they would surely gather again on Sunday (7 p.m. ET, Fox\/Univision), for the eighth Gold Cup final between the two North American neighbors if not for an extraordinary twist: That youngest son, Diego Luna, will be playing.\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_8946-300x164.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_8946-1024x558.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_8946-768x419.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_8946.jpeg 1284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","wpucv-grid-three":"","wpucv-grid-two":"","wpucv-grid-one":"","wpucv-classic":"","wpucv-classic-small":"","wpucv-galary":"","covernews-slider-full":"","covernews-slider-center":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","covernews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"info":["vicrollion"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/category\/sport\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Sport<\/a>","tag_info":"Sport","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}