{"id":689301,"date":"2026-07-13T13:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689301\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:26:15","slug":"world-cup-2026-england-to-wear-all-white-kit-and-argentina-navy-blue-in-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689301\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: England to wear all-white kit and Argentina navy blue in semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England will wear their all-white home kit to face Argentina in the semi-finals of the World Cup in Atlanta on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Holders Argentina will be in their navy blue away strip, with black shorts and socks, for the game at the Atlanta Stadium (20:00 BST), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cx268mlg3lgo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which will be shown live on the BBC.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have only worn the darker kit once during the tournament, in their 3-1 win against Jordan in the group stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Argentina have enjoyed success in their away kit against England at previous World Cups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They defeated the Three Lions 2-1 in the 1986 quarter-finals, in which Diego Maradona scored the &#8216;Hand of God&#8217; goal, and also secured a last-16 penalty shootout victory over their old rivals at the 1998 tournament in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England will wear their all-white home kit to face Argentina in the semi-finals of the World Cup in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-689301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689301","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=689301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}