{"id":7065,"date":"2026-07-05T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7065"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:58:00","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026-latest-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7065","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2026 \u2013 Latest Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The FIFA World Cup has entered the Round of 16, with two major knockout matches scheduled today:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Brazil vs. Norway \u2013 Brazil will look to continue its title bid against a disciplined Norwegian side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Mexico vs. England \u2013 One of the tournament&#8217;s biggest fixtures, with England taking on co-host Mexico in front of a passionate home crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Latest Results<\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">France defeated Paraguay 1\u20130, setting up a quarter-final against Morocco.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Morocco beat Canada 3\u20130, becoming the first African nation to reach the World Cup quarter-finals twice. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Highlight<\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 remains among the leading scorers after netting the winner for France against Paraguay. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Player union FIFPRO has urged stronger action against racist abuse targeting players during the tournament.\u00a0<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_260705_055605_513.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FIFA World Cup has entered the Round of 16, with two major knockout matches scheduled today: Brazil vs. Norway \u2013 Brazil will look to continue its title bid against a disciplined Norwegian side. Mexico vs. England \u2013 One of the tournament&#8217;s biggest fixtures, with England taking on co-host Mexico in front of a passionate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/CTC-Z-WC-FRANCE.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7067,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions\/7067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}