GOAL: The World Cup is here. What have you been doing to stay connected to it and follow it throughout the tournament?<\/p>\n
WONDOLOWSKI: I\u2019m definitely following it all. I\u2019m part of the Bay Area Host Committee, on the advisory board for them, so I\u2019ve stayed involved that way, doing a lot of different activities and promoting it.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s also about promoting what the Bay Area has to offer, especially on a global stage. It\u2019s pretty special. As you see, the game can unite so many, and that\u2019s something special.<\/p>\n
GOAL: How has the World Cup compared to previous soccer tournaments the Bay Area has had?<\/p>\n
WONDOLOWSKI: It was great to have the Gold Cup here last summer, but that being said, it doesn\u2019t rate anywhere near the World Cup.<\/p>\n
The energy is amazing. You see San Pedro Square filling up with over 20,000 people for all the big games. I bet tonight\u2019s over 25,000, probably more.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s pretty cool to see what the Bay Area showcases, and the fans, too. It\u2019s also how knowledgeable the fans are. I think it\u2019s nice that some of the casual fans are starting to realize, like, \u201cOh, what is this game?\u201d<\/p>\n
A lot of the games have been amazing, very exciting, and the superstars have really stepped up and shown off this World Cup. I think it\u2019s been a great recipe so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GOAL: The World Cup is here. What have you been doing to stay connected to it and follow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[61169,3056,7332,88,1084,90,89,1264,156587,5393],"class_list":["post-388387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-belgium","tag-features","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-earthquakes","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-usa","tag-usa-vs-belgium","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388387","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=388387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}