{"id":398621,"date":"2026-07-15T00:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398621\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T00:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:20:10","slug":"in-a-2-0-victory-spain-defeats-france-during-sf-bastille-day-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398621\/","title":{"rendered":"In a 2-0 Victory, Spain Defeats France During SF Bastille Day Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although San Francisco&#8217;s France fans may not be able to celebrate the outcome of the match, this weekend will be the city&#8217;s seventh annual Bastille Day festival.<\/p>\n<p>Jul 14, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Updated 4:57 pm PT<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/260714-FranceBastille-16-BL-KQED.jpg\"  alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Charles Dela Roca (left), a fan of Spain, pretends to fight with his friend Theo Piel, a fan of France, during the FIFA World Cup game between France and Spain in San Francisco on July 14, 2026. The team lost 2-0 to Spain in the World Cup semifinals \u2014 on a holiday that marks the beginning of the French Revolution.\u00a0(Beth LaBerge\/KQED)<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\" title=\"\">Packed into North Beach bars, France fans wrapped themselves in flags, painted their cheeks and cheered on their national team as it faced off against Spain in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/tag\/world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a> semifinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\" title=\"\">This year\u2019s match coincided with Bastille Day \u2013 a national holiday commemorating the beginning of the French Revolution \u2013 which made it an extra special occasion for Bay Area \u201cFrenchies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\" title=\"\">\u201cWe must win because it\u2019s also a special day for France,\u201d said Emma Cachot, a French national who came to watch the match with her friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/260714-FranceBastille-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091024\"  \/>Fans of France watch the FIFA World Cup game between France and Spain at Paname bar in San Francisco on July 14, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\" title=\"\">Despite the excitement, Spain defeated France 2-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\" title=\"\">Theo Piel, a San Francisco native, came prepared for the occasion, wielding a baguette and donning a beret.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\" title=\"\">\u201cI was born and raised in San Francisco to French parents, so I speak fluent French and I\u2019m fortunate enough to have the French culture with the San Francisco living,\u201d Piel said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\" title=\"\">He said he would still celebrate Bastille Day, win or lose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\" title=\"\">Piel\u2019s friend, Charles Dela Roca, voiced his support for Spain \u2014 because he\u2019s planning to move there next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although San Francisco&#8217;s France fans may not be able to celebrate the outcome of the match, this weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-398621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398621","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=398621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}