{"id":382215,"date":"2026-07-01T15:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382215\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:40:17","slug":"fifa-fans-line-up-for-mascot-bracelets-in-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382215\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA fans line up for mascot bracelets in San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/xyxif9h1cwegr7gw.jpg\" alt=\"Raw: San Jose police tackle, pepper spray rowdy crowd\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/xyxif9h1cwegr7gw.jpg\" alt=\"Raw: San Jose police tackle, pepper spray rowdy crowd\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-6546b402=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/video\/fmc-7okfb71mz8wggtab\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raw: San Jose police tackle, pepper spray rowdy crowd<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-892ef6a8=\"\">Video footage from the scene captured San Jose police officers tackling individuals to the ground, deploying pepper spray on crowd members, and arresting a handful of people who refused to clear the streets. Police had asked the crowd to disperse. <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211; A line began forming early Wednesday in San Pedro Square Market in San Jose, not to watch any World Cup match, but for a specialty bracelet that&#8217;s all the rage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Some of the most popular bracelets have the FIFA mascots on them: Maple the moose, Zayu the jaguar and Clutch the bald eagle.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/18_sfe-premade_sf.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">FIFA bracelet for San Francisco. Photo: Bank of America <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Bank of America created <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.bankofamerica.com\/content\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2026\/06\/bofa-kicks-off-fifa-world-cup-2026--with-2-million-free-fan-band.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2 million of these collectible bands<\/a> and is distributing them across 11 US host cities, featuring the Golden Gate Bridge and trolleys of San Francisco, Atlanta&#8217;s famous peaches and the Statue of Liberty in New York City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The bracelets are being distributed at FIFA fan zones, such as San Pedro Square Market in San Jose and Thrive City in San Francisco, as well as participating Bank of America branches for customers only.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Bank of America, visual evidence<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/world-cup\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA World Cup<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/santa-clara-county\/san-jose\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raw: San Jose police tackle, pepper spray rowdy crowd Video footage from the scene captured San Jose police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1184,100,88,90,89,198,1181,5393],"class_list":["post-382215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-us","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382215","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=382215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}