{"id":733436,"date":"2026-06-13T04:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/733436\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T04:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:08:13","slug":"jaxson-dart-tom-cruise-among-celebrities-to-attend-usmnts-fifa-world-cup-opener-in-videos-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/733436\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaxson Dart, Tom Cruise Among Celebrities to Attend USMNT&#8217;s FIFA World Cup Opener in Videos, Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Several stars were in attendance to watch the United States men&#8217;s national team face Paraguay in its 2026 FIFA World Cup debut on Friday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart and actor Tom Cruise were among the celebrities that showed up to Sofi Stadium for the match. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The USMNT is looking to open the World Cup on a high note as they look to emerge from Group D. After Friday&#8217;s matchup with Paraguay, the team will face Australia on June 19 and Turkey on June 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The U.S. squad previously advanced to the knockout round in 2022, 2014 and 2010. It&#8217;s worth noting that the team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">In the United States&#8217; most recent World Cup appearance at Qatar in 2022, it fell in the Round of 16. The current U.S. group contains 13 players from that roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">This includes Christian Pulisic, who already sits at No. 5 on the USMNT&#8217;s\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/soccer\/news\/usmnt-records-all-time-scoring-leaders-cap-winners-coaches\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">all-time goals scored list<\/a>\u00a0with 33.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">As for Paraguay, the team is making its first World Cup appearance since 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several stars were in attendance to watch the United States men&#8217;s national team face Paraguay in its 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-733436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733436","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=733436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}