Here are five names to have at your fingertips about the 18th World Cup, hosted by Germany and won by Italy.<\/p>\n
SUBSCRIBE TO KEEP READING<\/p>\n
Enter PROMO CODE: SOCCER2026 for $26 yearly membership.<\/p>\n
Daily TV listings for U.S. and global soccer.<\/p>\n
Inside access to USA\u2019s 2026 World Cup prep.<\/p>\n
Exclusive interviews with players and coaches.<\/p>\n
Expert analysis of top soccer headlines.<\/p>\n
Cancel anytime.<\/p>\n
Already have an account? Sign in here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Not ready to subscribe? Sign up here for our free newsletters.<\/p>\n Already have an account? Sign in here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tSoccer America Executive Editor Mike Woitalla has written freelance articles about soccer for more than 30 media outlets in nine nations. The winner of eight United Soccer Coaches Writing Contest awards,…\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tMore by Mike Woitalla\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are five names to have at your fingertips about the 18th World Cup, hosted by Germany and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82,13009,206263,206264],"class_list":["post-523650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-2006","tag-worldcupflashback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523650","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=523650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}