{"id":557218,"date":"2026-07-19T09:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/557218\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T09:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:10:30","slug":"five-financial-advisors-who-played-professional-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/557218\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Financial Advisors Who Played Professional Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">The 2026 FIFA World Cup is entering the semifinal stage this week, with Argentina facing England and France facing Spain to see who will play in the final on July 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">The tournament has been even more top of mind for the U.S., as it\u2019s hosted in here and in Canada and Mexico. The last time the U.S. hosted the men\u2019s World Cup was in 1994.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">And a lot of the lessons soccer players learn on the pitch translate well to the financial services industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Here, we highlight five financial services professionals who had careers as professional soccer players.<\/p>\n<p>play_arrowStart slideshow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 FIFA World Cup is entering the semifinal stage this week, with Argentina facing England and France&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[72,176,61,60,174,175],"class_list":["post-557218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}