{"id":216956,"date":"2026-06-11T19:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/2026-fifa-world-cup-kicks-off-with-a-bang-as-host-mexico-takes-early-lead-against-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T19:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:49:01","slug":"2026-fifa-world-cup-kicks-off-with-a-bang-as-host-mexico-takes-early-lead-against-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/2026-fifa-world-cup-kicks-off-with-a-bang-as-host-mexico-takes-early-lead-against-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off with a bang as host Mexico takes early lead against South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The extravaganza hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada is the biggest World Cup in history, stretching until the final in New Jersey on 19 July.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/06\/11\/2026-fifa-world-cup-begins-with-mexico-hosting-south-africa-in-opening-match\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extravaganza hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada is the biggest World Cup in history, stretching until the final in New Jersey on 19 July. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":216957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216956","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=216956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}