{"id":739169,"date":"2026-06-16T01:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/739169\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T01:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:45:09","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026-live-updates-boos-across-sofi-stadium-during-iranian-national-anthem-as-nz-go-1-0-up-against-iran-saudi-arabia-egypt-and-cape-verde-shock-opponents-with-three-draws-in-three-gam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/739169\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2026 LIVE updates: Boos across SoFi Stadium during Iranian national anthem as NZ go 1-0 up against Iran; Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Cape Verde shock opponents with three draws in three games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There seems no doubt that LA\u2019s massive Iranian diaspora, for all their unhappiness at having to hear the regime\u2019s anthem, are well and truly behind the players out there on the pitch. They know Iran are chasing this game already, despite enjoying the upper hand in the early exchanges, and every counter-attack and promising move is getting very vocal support.<\/p>\n<p>This game is as open as they come at the moment, end to end. Wood, the chaos-maker, tests Beiranvand but the keeper stands tall.<\/p>\n<p>Iran 0-1 New Zealand, 16 minutes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There seems no doubt that LA\u2019s massive Iranian diaspora, for all their unhappiness at having to hear the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-739169","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\/739169","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=739169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}