{"id":413833,"date":"2026-05-06T02:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/413833\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T02:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:36:09","slug":"fifa-world-cup-all-whites-to-play-haiti-in-world-cup-warm-up-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/413833\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa World Cup: All Whites to play Haiti in World Cup warm-up match"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The All Whites celebrate a goal in their 4-1 win over Chile at Eden Park. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n

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The All Whites will play Haiti for the first time as one of their lead-up matches to the Fifa World Cup.<\/p>\n

The New Zealanders take on the Caribbean side, who are ranked No 83 in the world, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on June 3.<\/p>\n

\n The match is just four days
\n before the All Whites play England in their second warm-up game before their opening World Cup fixture against Iran nine days later.\n <\/p>\n

The All Whites are ranked No 85 in the world, while England are fourth.<\/p>\n

Haiti are playing in the World Cup for the first time in 52 years, with their sole appearance being in West Germany in 1974. They qualified for this year\u2019s Cup in dramatic fashion, needing to win their final two games and have other matches go their way. They will play Scotland, Brazil, and Morocco in their pool games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 5 May, 2026 10:29 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5263,10542,36862,1888,63976,78,57583,10543,13085,111,139,69,10538,213,165,2044,61,212752,5264,1533,377],"class_list":["post-413833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-all","tag-cup","tag-fifa","tag-first","tag-haiti","tag-in","tag-leadup","tag-match","tag-matches","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-play","tag-sports","tag-their","tag-time","tag-to","tag-warmup","tag-whites","tag-will","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}