{"id":782956,"date":"2026-07-06T02:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T02:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782956\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T02:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T02:12:20","slug":"mexico-england-world-cup-round-of-16-match-delayed-by-1-hour-because-of-thunderstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782956\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico-England World Cup round of 16 match delayed by 1 hour because of thunderstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 The kickoff for the World Cup round of 16 game between Mexico and England was delayed by one hour on Sunday night as a thunderstorm rolled through Estadio Azteca.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The game was pushed to 7 p.m. local time from its scheduled 6 p.m. start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is the second time weather has disrupted El Tri\u2019s tournament run; their round of 32 match against Ecuador on Tuesday was pushed back an hour due to similar conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anticipating the storm, FIFA had weighed moving Sunday\u2019s kickoff to noon, but ultimately stuck to the original schedule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This marks the third major weather disruption of this World Cup, following a two-hour delay at halftime of the France-Iraq group stage match in Philadelphia on June 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> See more of AP\u2019s World Cup coverage here <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Carlos Rodriguez, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 The kickoff for the World Cup round of 16 game between Mexico and England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-782956","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\/782956","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=782956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}