--- title: World Cup 2014: U.S. Soccer Captain Clint Dempsey Posts Cute Instagram description: U.S. soccer wins Instragram canonical: https://time.com/2884089/clint-dempsey-fathers-day-instagram-soccer-worldcup/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-16T18:18:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:29.158Z og:title: U.S. Soccer Captain Clint Dempsey Posts Adorable Father's Day Instagram og:description: U.S. soccer wins Instragram og:url: https://time.com/2884089/clint-dempsey-fathers-day-instagram-soccer-worldcup/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: U.S. Soccer Captain Clint Dempsey Posts Adorable Father's Day Instagram twitter:description: U.S. soccer wins Instragram twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # U.S. Soccer Captain Clint Dempsey Posts Adorable Father's Day Instagram  by [Denver Nicks](/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Jun 16, 2014 6:18 PM CUT  by [Denver Nicks](/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Jun 16, 2014 6:18 PM CUT Clint Dempsey may be the captain of the United States’ men’s national soccer team but he’s also apparently the team’s captain of adorable-ness. Dempsey posted this amazing photo to Instagram just a day before the American striker leads the U.S. squad in its opening World Cup contest against team Ghana (Monday at 6 p.m. EST folks — get your [caxirolas](http://time.com/2865998/vuvuzela-twitter-returns-world-cup-brazil/ "undefined") ready!). A pair of tickets to the next World Cup says that the young lad summiting Dempsey’s shoulders and the two in his lap are quite possibly the happiest kids in the world tonight. The aww-inducing pic has already racked up thousands of likes on Instagram. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2884089/clint-dempsey-fathers-day-instagram-soccer-worldcup/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2884089/clint-dempsey-fathers-day-instagram-soccer-worldcup/"},"headline":"U.S. Soccer Captain Clint Dempsey Posts Adorable Father's Day Instagram","datePublished":"2014-06-16T18:18:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:29.158Z","description":"U.S. soccer wins Instragram","url":"https://time.com/2884089/clint-dempsey-fathers-day-instagram-soccer-worldcup/","keywords":["Living","Sports topic","Football","social","Instagram","United States","Soccer","World Cup","Ghana","FIFA"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2884089/clint-dempsey-fathers-day-instagram-soccer-worldcup/","name":"U.S. Soccer Captain Clint Dempsey Posts Adorable Father's Day Instagram"}}]}] ```