{"id":737122,"date":"2026-06-15T01:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737122\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T01:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:33:13","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026-live-scores-ivory-coast-beat-ecuador-1-0-netherlands-and-japan-in-2-all-draw-as-germany-smash-curacao-7-1-sweden-set-to-face-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737122\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2026 LIVE scores: Ivory Coast beat Ecuador 1-0, Netherlands and Japan in 2-all draw as Germany smash Curacao 7-1, Sweden set to face Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand coach Darren Bazeley brushed aside the political backdrop to his side\u2019s World Cup opener against Iran on Monday, saying his players were focused solely on football despite heightened attention surrounding the match.<\/p>\n<p>The Group G clash in Los Angeles comes after months of conflict involving Iran and a day after Washington and Tehran announced a framework agreement for a deal to end their war.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the wider significance of the fixture, Bazeley insisted New Zealand had prepared as they would for any other match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, we\u2019ve treated it as a normal game,\u201d he told reporters on Sunday. \u201cWe prepare the same for every international game that we play, and we\u2019ve done nothing different for this game. For us, it\u2019s a big game because it\u2019s a World Cup game, and we want to do well here at the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand coach Darren Bazeley brushed aside the political backdrop to his side\u2019s World Cup opener against Iran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-737122","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\/737122","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=737122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}