{"id":225112,"date":"2026-07-17T09:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/spain-strongest-team-eu-sport-commissioner-backs-la-roja\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:49:06","slug":"spain-strongest-team-eu-sport-commissioner-backs-la-roja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/spain-strongest-team-eu-sport-commissioner-backs-la-roja\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain &#8216;strongest&#8217; team, EU Sport Commissioner backs La Roja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Micallef, EU sport commissioner, says the expanded World Cup format &#8220;worked&#8221; ahead of Sunday&#8217;s final. Micallef says the tournament reflects the improvement of football worldwide, but insists the &#8220;best talent and best football is still being played in Europe&#8221;, making him &#8220;proud&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/07\/17\/spain-strongest-team-eu-sport-commissioner-backs-la-roja\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Micallef, EU sport commissioner, says the expanded World Cup format &#8220;worked&#8221; ahead of Sunday&#8217;s final. Micallef says the tournament reflects the improvement of football worldwide, but insists the &#8220;best talent and best football is still being played in Europe&#8221;, making him &#8220;proud&#8221;. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":225113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225112","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=225112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}