{"id":449992,"date":"2026-05-28T20:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/449992\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:39:11","slug":"fifa-world-cup-how-a-viral-campaign-made-all-whites-defender-tim-payne-an-unexpected-star-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/449992\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup: How a viral campaign made All Whites defender Tim Payne an unexpected star &#8211; Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwgFBVV95cUxQUjN0MC1qbXhVNE1LOWZYQXhnOUdKWk9ZY2tuUEcxWk5sbjRsQXkyLXNwTDFPWS1LRlUzcU80N3BqNVlFYlRDSzZUOUZYOVhXOUgzNGl2UnB1ZmZETXZrdDN0OWFwdmRhM0N5R1VGYkVQX1laVy1yOWhrWTcwWU9Jd0dMcEc5X1g3Um1QVjlkVG9FWko5eHpQSHNTOERINWlPekFpZ01wRVN2cFFqMDRScnZkMUxiLTlpV05hQ1Z6RnhXZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FIFA World Cup: How a viral campaign made All Whites defender Tim Payne an unexpected star<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Stuff<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiiwJBVV95cUxPOW9NQmNwSXZCXy1mZ0ZJUTJpeERPYUdtMy1sd3JPQ3dDX2ZrUGFGX01uRkV4V0JkSEtoc3JWRnRKVnJhOWo1OGpfLXdVOVFRb1U3bnRIUXhkYXQzM1ZsaWhaWVpUbVE0eE9OdVRqVzVLTVpISnBnaWhBRENmTWc5b0hOcjNIUDM3LTZfZWtBanVmaXphMkptWVFuNWFWYnJUTkFKUmhIelJKcl9kMjYyOUxvRUpNMHhnUV84UGUwQmc3WFpwbUtxbnpUS2pGNUZWQzhFWkFFV0JUa3NNdUh4M0JXLVpRY2swQTRqcVVsVkZYUEthWVBpOEFaYkYwRXJnRVdMTzBrc2pTVjQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Legend of Tim Payne&#8217;: Argentine influencer makes All Whites defender a cult hero<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;NZ Herald<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiZ0FVX3lxTE5ld1NmMHhndFpCX3Mxa3Byam9MS3VZNnFqSFREOU14ZElTSDdRd1NzSExSd2ROTFcwUW8zMG9UcGdfUWZUSTRNeTl6c2ZZQl9uNnNrSE0xczU2MW12WjJDOEZwNnQyTW8?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Least-known&#8217; World Cup player gains half a million followers<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilgFBVV95cUxQWWlIRVBjLS1MNXhoZmVLekVCOTljaUVCck53SW5Ha1c3dE51QW9rZGFsZVhucFlOX0tkM0hGNmFlSERYM2p4YXJId1VzWm9fRk9pb2cwUUVzQWhISU0xcldnMnVRVEYtenYtcC1FRmgtUENGQnBEOGJNY1hXTnFRRE9CUXdvdWxaV0hNb01ZZlZjM014WUE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u2018Least known\u2019 World Cup player goes viral with help from influencer<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;nbcnews.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup: How a viral campaign made All Whites defender Tim Payne an unexpected star&nbsp;&nbsp;Stuff&#8216;Legend of Tim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,43,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-449992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449992","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=449992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}