{"id":327781,"date":"2026-07-02T21:53:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327781\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T21:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:53:27","slug":"argentina-team-departs-for-practice-as-fans-cheer-outside-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327781\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina team departs for practice as fans cheer outside hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 2, 2026 at 5:22 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Argentina\u2019s national soccer team departed its Fort Lauderdale hotel for practice on Thursday as a couple dozen fans gathered outside hoping to catch a glimpse of the World Cup favorites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Video showed the players boarding the buses. Fans were kept at a distance, making it difficult to see the players as they headed to practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Loyal Argentina fans came from all over to see the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One father and son, who had just been in Dallas to watch Argentina, are now in Miami. They came to get a glimpse of the players and hope to get a jersey signed at some point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fans shared what they were hoping to see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI hope they\u2019re going to wave,\u201d one fan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When asked if they had been surprised by the team, another fan said there was no pressure, so \u201cyou don\u2019t know what he\u2019s going to do now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Another fan, Bruno Martinez, said he wasn\u2019t surprised by how well Argentina has looked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThere are too many strong teams in the World Cup,\u201d Martinez said. \u201cIf you want to beat Argentina, you need to fight a lot &#8212; you need to fight, fight a lot.\u201d<\/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=\"Aaron Maybin\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b1f0fdcc-a947-4d3e-8210-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Aaron Maybin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Aaron came to Local 10 from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he worked as a weekend morning anchor and reporter at WITI-TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 2, 2026 at 5:22 PM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Argentina\u2019s national soccer team departed its Fort Lauderdale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-327781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327781","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=327781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}