{"id":216884,"date":"2026-06-11T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/the-2026-world-cup-kicks-off-today-heres-everything-you-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:00:40","slug":"the-2026-world-cup-kicks-off-today-heres-everything-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/the-2026-world-cup-kicks-off-today-heres-everything-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2026 World Cup kicks off today &#8211; here&#8217;s everything you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to FIFA, 2.9 billion people worldwide watched the 2022 World Cup in Qatar on linear TV, with 2.7 billion also streaming the tournament. <\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/06\/11\/the-2026-world-cup-kicks-off-today-heres-everything-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to FIFA, 2.9 billion people worldwide watched the 2022 World Cup in Qatar on linear TV, with 2.7 billion also streaming the tournament. Read more at Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":216885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}