{"id":327342,"date":"2025-12-05T16:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327342\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:19:09","slug":"world-cup-2026-draw-live-updates-latest-matches-groups-and-schedule-from-todays-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327342\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026 draw live updates: Latest matches, groups and schedule from today\u2019s ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, here are some of my colleagues\u2019 suggestions for what to name U.S. Soccer\u2019s new mascot, which was revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/live-blogs\/world-cup-2026-draw-live-updates\/lgfaShhkwch9\/KZWBfb3KTLb3\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">back here a few minutes ago<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Some of these are exceptional. Others, less so. Still, we all love a trier \u2014 and I\u2019ve included names as this is all good fun!<\/p>\n<p>Paul Tenorio: Mauricio Pooch-ettinoAvi Creditor: Max ARFstenEd Mackey: Shefki PoochiLuke Brown: Ricardo Puppi<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve got some suggestions through from you guys too! These arrived in the inbox \u2014 you can add yours with an email to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/live-blogs\/world-cup-2026-draw-live-updates\/lgfaShhkwch9\/mailto:live@theathletic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">live@theathletic.com<\/a> \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Capri Wall: Captain KickJames Greene: Chester, the Chesapeake Bay Retriever <\/p>\n<p>I also have sympathy with our reporter Felipe Cardenas, who rightly wrote: \u201cThere\u2019s only one Striker\u201d in reference to the World Cup mascot of U.S.A 1994. <\/p>\n<p>As for my personal winner, I\u2019m going to unilaterally (this is a FIFA occasion after all) award it to Max Mathews for \u2026 <\/p>\n<p>Sensational work, Max. But of course, you may still have better up your sleeve. We\u2019ll keep our eyes on the inbox through the rest of the day for this and all your thoughts on the World Cup draw. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As promised, here are some of my colleagues\u2019 suggestions for what to name U.S. Soccer\u2019s new mascot, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-327342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}