{"id":224269,"date":"2026-07-14T11:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/e2-8bn-battle-on-the-pitch-france-and-spain-face-off-in-world-cups-priciest-semi-final\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T11:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:49:02","slug":"e2-8bn-battle-on-the-pitch-france-and-spain-face-off-in-world-cups-priciest-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/e2-8bn-battle-on-the-pitch-france-and-spain-face-off-in-world-cups-priciest-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20ac2.8bn battle on the pitch: France and Spain face off in World Cup&#8217;s priciest semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday&#8217;s clash between France and Spain in Texas is not just a footballing spectacle, it is also, by market value, the costliest semi-final the World Cup has staged, with the two squads worth a combined $3.2 billion (\u20ac2.8bn).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2026\/07\/14\/france-and-spain-meet-in-the-most-expensive-world-cup-semi-final-in-history\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday&#8217;s clash between France and Spain in Texas is not just a footballing spectacle, it is also, by market value, the costliest semi-final the World Cup has staged, with the two squads worth a combined $3.2 billion (\u20ac2.8bn). Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":224270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224269","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\/224269","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=224269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}