{"id":285004,"date":"2026-05-26T18:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285004\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:10:18","slug":"miami-firefighters-police-officers-to-face-off-in-soccer-friendly-ahead-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285004\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami firefighters, police officers to face off in soccer friendly ahead of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 26, 2026 at 1:50 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MJ7PEQ5GNZAOPH5Q5TMU37W7OA.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Miami Fire Rescue is inviting the community to a family-friendly soccer event this weekend as firefighters and police officers face off ahead of the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The \u201cRoad to the World Cup: Miami Fire vs. Miami Police Soccer Friendly\u201d will take place Saturday at Curtis Park, located at 1901 NW 24th Ave. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The event is hosted by the Miami Firefighters Benevolent Association, Local 587, in partnership with MFR and the Miami Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Organizers said the event will feature a soccer match between firefighters and police officers, along with youth activities, food trucks, music, bounce houses and other entertainment for families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The event is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with the match beginning at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 26, 2026 at 1:50 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand MIAMI \u2014 Miami Fire Rescue is inviting the community to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-285004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}