{"id":735557,"date":"2026-06-14T07:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/735557\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T07:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:32:11","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026-live-updates-australia-socceroos-v-turkey-brazil-v-morocco-results-how-to-watch-kick-off-start-time-games-teams-players-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/735557\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2026 LIVE updates: Australia Socceroos v Turkey, Brazil v Morocco results, how to watch, kick off, start time, games, teams, players"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver: The Michael Jackson dance can wait. The sequinned glove can stay in the back pocket for next time.<\/p>\n<p>For his first big moment on the global stage, the most important day of his life so far, Nestory Irankunda made all the right decisions &#8211; from the touch that brought down the ball, to the placement of his finish, to the celebration that followed, steeped in Socceroos mythology.<\/p>\n<p>After latching onto a marvellous long ball from Paul Okon jnr, slipping between two Turkish defenders and sliding his first World Cup goal into the bottom-left corner, Irankunda ran straight to his nearest corner flag and started shadowboxing &#8211; a trademark of Tim Cahill, Australia\u2019s greatest performer on this stage, and, right up until that ball rolled over that line, the Socceroos\u2019 last true household name.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we have a new one. At least one. Maybe more.<\/p>\n<p>Read Vince\u2019s full analysis <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/soccer\/irankunda-s-genius-and-beach-s-brilliance-cap-off-popovic-masterclass-20260614-p606n1.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"He punches the flag, Timmy C style.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/54ce026ad19d836b0e0fc1a70cfaab1d209740f3.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>He punches the flag, Timmy C style.AP Photo\/Kaleb Tatum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vancouver: The Michael Jackson dance can wait. The sequinned glove can stay in the back pocket for next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-735557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735557","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=735557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}