{"id":416176,"date":"2026-01-17T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416176\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:28:08","slug":"obituary-rocco-commisso-1949-2026-soccer-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416176\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Rocco Commisso (1949-2026) &#8211; Soccer America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rocco Commisso, the owner of Fiorentina and chairman of New York-based cable company Mediacom Communications, has died. He was 76.<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE TO KEEP READING<\/p>\n<p>Daily TV listings for U.S. and global soccer.<\/p>\n<p>Inside access to USA\u2019s 2026 World Cup prep.<\/p>\n<p>Exclusive interviews with players and coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Expert analysis of top soccer headlines.<\/p>\n<p>And much more!<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">*Limited time offer for new and returning subscribers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">Already have an account? Sign in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socceramerica.com\/my-account\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.socceramerica.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not ready to subscribe? Sign up here for our free newsletters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">Already have an account? Sign in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socceramerica.com\/my-account\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.socceramerica.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rocco Commisso, the owner of Fiorentina and chairman of New York-based cable company Mediacom Communications, has died. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,4996,144532,2385,561,82,18279],"class_list":["post-416176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-italy","tag-new-york-cosmos","tag-obituary","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-u-s-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416176","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=416176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}