{"id":198801,"date":"2025-10-08T22:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/198801\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T22:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:10:10","slug":"football-daily-destination-new-jersey-mexico-as-hosts-magic-for-cape-verde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/198801\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Daily &#8211; Destination New Jersey: Mexico as hosts &#038; magic for Cape Verde?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">Available for over a year<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-whitespace-pre-line sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">Mark Chapman and Rory Smith continue the countdown to the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Nico Cantor from CBS Sports and Mexican sports journalist Marion Reimers look at Mexico, who will host nine of the tournament\u2019s 104 matches. How will they fare as one of the tournament\u2019s hosts? Can they finally shake off the tag of \u2018dark horses\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>Former South Africa captain Dean Furman and former Nigeria international Efan Ekoku discuss some of the African teams who may qualify \u2013 how are South Africa and Nigeria faring? Plus hear from Cape Verde and Shamrock Rovers defender Roberto Lopes with his country on the edge of qualification for their first ever World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>02.40 \u2013 Mexico<br \/>\n24.20 \u2013 Bigger picture for African teams<br \/>\n43.45 \u2013 Cape Verde<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0m7hr7t\" aria-label=\"Programme Website of Destination New Jersey: Mexico as hosts &amp; magic for Cape Verde?\" data-testid=\"programme-website-link\" class=\"sw-group sw-inline-flex sw-items-center sw-pt-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Programme Website<\/a>Show less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Available for over a year Mark Chapman and Rory Smith continue the countdown to the 2026 World Cup.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-198801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}