{"id":733742,"date":"2026-06-13T09:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/733742\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T09:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:43:12","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026-live-updates-day-2-australia-misses-katy-perrys-world-cup-trainwreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/733742\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2026 live updates Day 2: Australia misses Katy Perry\u2019s World Cup \u2018trainwreck\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katy Perry underwhelmed in her opening ceremony performance but that was the only sour note for the USA as they kicked off their World Cup campaign in style.<\/p>\n<p>Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s side thrashed Paraguay 4-1 after co-hosts Canada opened with a 1-1 draw against Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina.<\/p>\n<p>USA led 3-0 at halftime and looked scintillating, with the injury to star man Christian Pulisic the only negative on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Katy Perry\u2019s performance was also widely criticised, so perhaps it was fortunate Aussies missed it as SBS failed to broadcast the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/content.api.news\/v3\/images\/bin\/526ba0f07084869778695c1060ce36c6\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"Czech player has shirt ripped at World Cup\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>However Australians will have taken note of the US display on the pitch, as they meet in Group D next week.<\/p>\n<p>But first the Socceroos face Turkey on Sunday to begin their World Cup journey.<\/p>\n<p>Read on for more updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katy Perry underwhelmed in her opening ceremony performance but that was the only sour note for the USA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-733742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733742","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=733742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}