{"id":706520,"date":"2026-05-31T21:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/706520\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:28:11","slug":"surrey-soccer-club-ready-to-welcome-fifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/706520\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey soccer club ready to welcome FIFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tFIFA\u2019s billion-dollar price tag sparks backlash in B.C.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"card-text\">A new report pegs the cost of hosting seven FIFA World Cup matches in Vancouver at nearly $578 million for B.C. taxpayers \u2014 reigniting debate over whether the global spotlight is worth the steep public price tag. Joe Sadowski reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"time-since card-text\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMay 20, 2026 6:43 pm PST PST\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIFA\u2019s billion-dollar price tag sparks backlash in B.C. A new report pegs the cost of hosting seven FIFA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-706520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706520","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=706520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}