With less than two weeks until the start of the FIFA World Cup, excitement is building across the Bay Area.<\/p>\n
Workers on Friday assembled a giant Adidas “Trionda” soccer ball at San Pedro Square in downtown San Jose. <\/p>\n
The installation is one of just 16 being created for World Cup host cities and will serve as a centerpiece for fans ahead of the tournament.<\/p>\n
The oversized soccer ball will stand about 10 feet tall and 8 feet wide once completed, welcoming visitors and soccer enthusiasts to the area.<\/p>\n
San Pedro Square is also set for a major transformation during the World Cup. Organizers plan to convert roughly 30,000 square feet of surrounding streets into a fan zone that will host watch parties and other experiences throughout the tournament.<\/p>\n
The venue will show all 104 World Cup matches across 34 match days, giving fans a place to gather and celebrate the world’s biggest sporting event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With less than two weeks until the start of the FIFA World Cup, excitement is building across the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[15392,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-337936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}