{"id":358592,"date":"2026-06-12T23:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358592\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T23:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:51:08","slug":"live-updates-usmnt-opens-world-cup-action-against-paraguay-in-la-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358592\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: USMNT opens World Cup action against Paraguay in LA \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to KnowThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/world-cup\/usmnt-world-cup-roster-2026-players-coaches-snubs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">U.S. men&#8217;s national team<\/a> is opening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a> action against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/world-cup\/usa-paraguay-time-tv-channel-stream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Paraguay<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/world-cup\/fifa-world-cup-stadiums-2026-us-canada-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles Stadium<\/a>. Kickoff is set for 9 p.m. ET\/6 p.m. PT.The U.S. is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/world-cup\/host-nations-results-fifa-world-cup-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">hosting the World Cup<\/a> for the first time since 1994, this time sharing hosting duties with Canada and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/world-cup\/world-cup-empty-seats-opening-day-renew-ticket-price-concerns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Mexico<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/world-cup\/mauricio-pochettino-usmnt-manager-world-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s<\/a> side is the top-ranked team in Group D. The USMNT sits at No. 17 in FIFA&#8217;s rankings, followed by Turkey (No. 23), Australia (No. 27) and Paraguay (No. 40).The Americans will play their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/world-cup\/usmnt-world-cup-schedule-dates-times-matchups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">second group stage game<\/a> against Australia in Seattle on Friday, June 19, and return to LA for their final group stage contest against Turkey on Thursday, June 25.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. men&#8217;s national team will face Paraguay in its 2026 World Cup opener from Los Angeles Stadium. Follow along for live updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowThe U.S. men&#8217;s national team is opening World Cup action against Paraguay at Los Angeles Stadium.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15392,48,52,51,47,50,49,1083,3366,5393],"class_list":["post-358592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-soccer","tag-usmnt","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358592","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=358592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}