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U.S. midfielder Brenden Aaronson had a good excuse for missing the U.S. World Cup team’s practice on Friday – he was getting married.
The Leeds midfielder is marrying his longtime girlfriend Milana D’Ambra, a daughter of Saint Joseph’s men’s soccer coach Don D’Ambra.
Aaronson, also a member of the 2022 U.S. World Cup team, left camp after Thursday’s session and was due back in time for practice Saturday.
A 25-year-old with Leeds in the Premier League, Aaronson is part of a well-known American soccer family from Medford, New Jersey. His brother Paxten is with Major League Soccer’s Colorado Rapids and sister Jaden played for Villanova as a freshman last fall. Their father, Rusty, is the athletic director of the Real Futbol Academy in Medford.
The U.S. team allowed star Christian Pulisic to skip practice to attend his Hershey High School prom on May 27, 2016 at the Hershey Hotel in Pennsylvania and then return for the following day’s Copa América match against Bolivia in Kansas City, Kansas.
Report from the Associated Press.
