{"id":326236,"date":"2022-11-18T03:47:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T03:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=326236"},"modified":"2022-11-18T04:42:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T04:42:10","slug":"world-cup-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/world-cup-preview","title":{"rendered":"World Cup preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 World Cup begins Sun., Nov. 20, with host country Qatar playing Ecuador at 11 a.m. An event normally played during June and July, the 2022 World Cup will be the first in the tournament&#8217;s history to be played during the winter to combat the blazing Qatar heat. Of course, for Southern-hemisphere fans, the 2022 World Cup will be the first true summer tournament. After failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, the U.S. Men&#8217;s National Team (USMNT) is back with a mission of redemption. In the Yank&#8217;s last World Cup outing in 2014, the team narrowly made it out of the Group Stage, but unfortunately lost to Belgium in the Round of 16. Hopes are high this year as the U.S. will field a team led by stars like Christian Pulisic, Westin Mckennie, Gio Reyna, Tyler Adams, Sergi&#241;o Dest, and Tim Ream, who play in Europe&#8217;s top leagues. The U.S. kicks off its campaign against Wales on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 World Cup begins Sun., Nov. 20, with host country Qatar playing Ecuador at 11 a.m. An event normally played during June and July, the 2022 World Cup will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-soccer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326236","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=326236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}