{"id":634682,"date":"2026-06-12T10:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/634682\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:45:10","slug":"world-cup-live-ticket-price-controversy-leaves-thousands-of-seats-empty-ahead-of-canada-vs-bosnia-clash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/634682\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup LIVE: Ticket price controversy leaves thousands of seats empty ahead of Canada vs Bosnia clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Wataru Endo, the Japanese midfielder who was forced to step back from the country&#8217;s national team, has announced he will also be stepping back from international football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Announcing the sad news on X, formerly Twitter, the 33-year-old said he had done &#8220;everything he possibly could&#8221; following his injury, adding he has &#8220;no regrets&#8221;. Wataru said: &#8220;From the moment I got injured up until now, I have done everything I possibly could, so I have no regrets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cOf course there is frustration at not being able to play in this World Cup, but more than that, I am proud that since the Qatar World Cup I have led this team as captain and that we have grown together into a group that can speak of \u2018winning the World Cup\u2019 as a matter of course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cThe team we have now is a truly outstanding one. I believe they will overcome any adversity and show us a view we have never seen before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wataru Endo\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0_Japan-v-Iceland-International-Friendly.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Wataru Endo will miss the World Cup through injury\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Wataru Endo will miss the World Cup through injury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wataru Endo, the Japanese midfielder who was forced to step back from the country&#8217;s national team, has announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[293,10668,218,14944,101,56,54,55,58033],"class_list":["post-634682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-football","tag-football-fans","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}