{"id":17303,"date":"2022-06-17T02:44:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T02:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/philadelphia-selected-as-one-of-16-cities-to-host-world-cup-games-in-2026"},"modified":"2022-10-09T05:52:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T05:52:21","slug":"philadelphia-selected-as-one-of-16-cities-to-host-world-cup-games-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/philadelphia-selected-as-one-of-16-cities-to-host-world-cup-games-in-2026","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia selected as one of 16 cities to host World Cup games in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Seattle and Kansas City, Missouri, were the newcomers among the 11 U.S. sites picked to host games at the 2026 World Cup, while Baltimore, Cincinnati, Denver, Nashville, Tennessee, and Orlando, Florida, were left out. Arlington, Texas; East Rutherford, New Jersey; Foxborough, Massachusetts, and Inglewood and Santa Clara, California, were the holdovers. FIFA announced its selections Thursday for the first World Cup with three co-hosts, also picking three Mexican cities and two in Canada. The bid plan envisioned 60 games in the U.S., including all from the quarterfinals on, and 10 each in Mexico and Canada. Specific sites for each round will be announced later. Philadelphia Union coach Jim Curtin who says a World Cup event in this city will hopefully revive interest in the game and bring more fans to their games in Chester. &#8220;It&#8217;s huge for our players and hopefully this will bring more people to watch our games. We have a family friendly, real<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia has been named one of 16 cities to host World Cup games in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[309,138,58],"class_list":["post-17303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-fifa","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}