{"id":765851,"date":"2026-06-28T01:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765851\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T01:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:18:11","slug":"world-cup-2026-live-updates-portugal-vs-colomboa-ronaldo-luis-diaz-face-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765851\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026 live updates: Portugal vs. Colomboa, Ronaldo, Luis Diaz face off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"lh\">Juan Nicolas wants this time to be different.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"lk\">The Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, native saw the scary scene two years ago during the Copa America final as <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/copa-america-argentina-colombia-fans-security-ce881853569d013f1c29d553cfbad369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">thousands of ticketless fans<\/a> breached the security gates at Hard Rock Stadium to watch Colombia face Argentina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"ln\">Colombia\u2019s soccer team will play Portugal today in a World Cup group stage match, returning to the stadium for the first time since that incident \u2014 this time with heightened security and multiple checkpoints.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782511738035_now_hallie_world_cup_security_260626_S3_1920x1080-hchrpo.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" alt=\"Miami ramps up security ahead of Colombia-Portugal World Cup match\" class=\"block\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"me\">\u201cNow that we\u2019re here, I feel a little pressure just to show myself better and like to show a better country to the world,\u201d said Nicolas, who said he was not at the match in 2024. \u201cColombia is new now. Colombia has new stuff to give to the world. We\u2019re a different country, so now we have to show that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"mh\">The crowd trouble began hours before the July 2024 match. Supporters \u2014 many of them wearing Colombia\u2019s yellow and red colors \u2014 rushed the gates at the home stadium of the NFL\u2019s Miami Dolphins, leaving fans terrified and bloodied as security struggled to contain the rush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juan Nicolas wants this time to be different. The Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, native saw the scary scene two years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-765851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765851","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=765851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}