{"id":466690,"date":"2026-05-29T20:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/466690\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:36:09","slug":"what-americans-think-about-the-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/466690\/","title":{"rendered":"What Americans think about the 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"bmt13\">Americans with an annual family income of $100,000 or more are slightly more likely than people with annual family incomes of $50,000 to $100,000 to say they would pay at least $100 for World Cup tickets to a match that includes the U.S. team (24% vs. 18%). Among people with annual family incomes of $50,000 or less, 7% would spend at least $100 on a ticket.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"8uo79\">For matches that don\u2019t include the U.S. team, 20% of people with annual family incomes of $100,000 or more say they would spend at least $100 for a ticket. 16% of people with annual family incomes of $50,000 to $100,000 say the same, as do 6% of people with annual family incomes below $50,000.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"eq67m\">Which team do Americans think is most likely to win the World Cup? 12% of Americans think it will be the U.S. team, while 6% think Argentina\u2019s men\u2019s team will win it. 5% of Americans think Brazil\u2019s team will win, 3% think France\u2019s team will win, 2% think England\u2019s team will win, and 2% think Spain\u2019s team will win. For each of the other 24 teams, 1% or less think they will win the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4j69o\">Among people who are at least somewhat interested in the World Cup, 22% think the U.S. men\u2019s team will win. 14% think Argentina\u2019s team will win, 11% think Brazil\u2019s team will win, 8% think France\u2019s team will win, and 6% think England\u2019s team will win. (Spain and France are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/fifa-world-cup-men\/team-futures?future=2026_WORLD_CUP_ODDS&amp;segmentId=0&amp;id=2083\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">betting favorites<\/a> and the U.S. is outside the top 10.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Americans with an annual family income of $100,000 or more are slightly more likely than people with annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-466690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}