{"id":733488,"date":"2026-06-13T06:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T06:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/733488\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T06:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T06:47:10","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026-results-as-it-happened-usa-win-4-1-over-paraguay-and-canada-earns-first-ever-world-cup-point-in-1-1-with-bosnia-and-herzegovina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/733488\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2026 results as it happened: USA win 4-1 over Paraguay and Canada earns first-ever World Cup point in 1-1 with Bosnia and Herzegovina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comments from Cahlangolu are the continuation of a storyline that began the moment the World Cup draw was made and US pundits laughed off any suggestion the Socceroos would pose any sort of threat.<\/p>\n<p>Popovic said his attention has always been on the Socceroos and what they are capable of and what they can control.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aiden O\u2019Neill speaks to the press.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f59de9ed5968ac3f4a15429cc77b54403f080d36.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Aiden O\u2019Neill speaks to the press.Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe focused on ourselves, and our focus has really been on how we can prepare, how we can be the best we can be here at the World Cup,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand that not many people are expecting much from us outside of our own people, our own media, our own team, our own staff, but you know we\u2019re accustomed to that, but we\u2019re confident that we can show them some great football tomorrow, and show them what Australian football can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cleary the Australians have decided to hold their tongues and do their talking on the BC Stadium pitch (which looks incredible, by the way). My colleague Vince Rugari has offered Aiden O\u2019Neill the chance to fire back at Calhanoglu in the press conference, but he\u2019s let that opportunity go through to the keeper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know he\u2019s allowed his own opinion,\u201d O\u2019Neill said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got quality players in our team too, so yeah, we\u2019re ready for tomorrow, and &#8230; we\u2019re extremely excited.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The comments from Cahlangolu are the continuation of a storyline that began the moment the World Cup draw&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-733488","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\/733488","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=733488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}