{"id":742796,"date":"2026-06-17T17:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/742796\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:57:15","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026-football-legends-have-had-enough-of-us-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/742796\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2026: Football legends have had enough of US colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England begins its bid to end a 60-year wait for a trophy and Cristiano Ronaldo is set to play in a record-equalling sixth tournament as the first week of the World Cup concludes.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo\u2019s Portugal begin today\u2019s action with a 3am (AEST) contest against the Democratic Republic of Congo before England plays Croatia at 6am.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1841b89a968bda1e9e2e1b9cd0bbd7d3.jpeg\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"World up in arms as Lionel Messi avoids red card\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ghana and Panama follow at 9am ahead of Usbekistan\u2019s clash with Colombia at 12pm. <\/p>\n<p>Read on for more updates.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published as <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/football\/world-cup\/group-stage-portugal-ronaldo-england\/live-coverage\/6e4ac726a67688fcf160bc640c9a7796\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup live: Football legends reach limit with American colleagues<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England begins its bid to end a 60-year wait for a trophy and Cristiano Ronaldo is set to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-742796","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\/742796","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=742796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}