{"id":125818,"date":"2025-07-20T14:06:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=125818"},"modified":"2025-07-20T14:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:06:27","slug":"north-america-picked-to-host-2026-world-cup-soccer-games-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=125818","title":{"rendered":"North America Picked To Host 2026 World Cup Soccer Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yuy0GbH8c-0?rel=0&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>As soccer fans around the world await the start of the 2018 World Cup games in Moscow on Thursday, FIFA is already looking ahead to the 2026 tournament. Soccer&#8217;s governing body on Wednesday selected the host for the sport&#8217;s showpiece event in eight years, and North America won.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yuy0GbH8c-0\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As soccer fans around the world await the start of the 2018 World Cup games in Moscow on Thursday, FIFA is already looking ahead to the 2026 tournament. Soccer&#8217;s governing&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3374,"featured_media":125819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-world-wide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}