{"id":753967,"date":"2026-06-23T00:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/753967\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T00:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:43:19","slug":"football-soccer-france-v-iraq-world-cup-game-resumes-after-lengthy-weather-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/753967\/","title":{"rendered":"Football: Soccer-France v Iraq World Cup game resumes after lengthy weather delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA, \u2060June 22 (Reuters) &#8211; France&#8217;s World Cup game \u2060against Iraq resumed after a delay \u200cof almost two hours caused by thunderstorms and lightning at halftime on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Players returned to the pitch \u200bfor a 20-minute warm-up at \u20601930 local time (2330GMT) \u2060with France leading 1-0 after a 14th-minute goal \u2060by \u200cKylian Mbappe.<\/p>\n<p>It is a first time a game in this \u2060year&#8217;s tournament has suffered a weather-related delay.<\/p>\n<p>World \u200bCup matches \u200cin the United States can face \u2060lengthy delays \u200bbecause FIFA must comply with local lightning safety regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Under U.S. protocols, play is suspended \u2060immediately if lightning is detected \u200bwithin an eight-mile (13-km) radius of a stadium and can only resume after 30 minutes have \u2060passed without a further strike.<\/p>\n<p>Any new lightning detection resets the countdown, meaning delays can stretch for several hours if thunderstorms persist.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA \u200bhas no fixed time \u2060limit after which a match must be \u200babandoned, with each situation assessed \u200con a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting \u200bby Ian Nicholas Quillen; Writing by Julien Pretot; Editing by Christian Radnedge)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, \u2060June 22 (Reuters) &#8211; France&#8217;s World Cup game \u2060against Iraq resumed after a delay \u200cof almost two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,13201,596,85,21418],"class_list":["post-753967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753967","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=753967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}