{"id":368826,"date":"2026-06-21T02:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/368826\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T02:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:52:07","slug":"organizers-to-add-4th-screen-in-san-pedro-square-for-world-cup-watch-parties-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/368826\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizers to add 4th screen in San Pedro Square for World Cup watch parties \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch party organizers at San Pedro Square are preparing for the upcoming USMNT match in Santa Clara on July 1. <\/p>\n<p>The Mexico and USA matches each brought more than 25,000 fans to downtown San Jose, packing bars, restaurants and all three outdoor screens.<\/p>\n<p>Now, organizers are preparing for even bigger crowds and adding a fourth screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal is to have that approved and ready for next week, when Mexico plays on Wednesday,\u201d San Jose Sports Authority Executive Director John Poch said.<\/p>\n<p>That fourth screen would stretch from San Pedro Street all the way to St. James to handle the extra-large footprint organizers are expecting. Restaurants in the area are also bracing for record crowds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch party organizers at San Pedro Square are preparing for the upcoming USMNT match in Santa Clara on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[15392,88,90,89,5393],"class_list":["post-368826","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","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368826","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=368826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}