{"id":227062,"date":"2026-05-11T11:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227062\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:50:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-soccer-takeover-planned-at-schools-ahead-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227062\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Soccer Takeover Planned At Schools Ahead Of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The biggest sporting event in the world is kicking off in June at Met Life Stadium, and everyone gets to join in on the festivities.<\/p>\n<p>The FIFA World Cup is expected to bring thousands of fans to the tri-state area.<\/p>\n<p>For some students, the pitch is coming to them through the Soccer Streets program.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is for schools and children across New York City to be able to experience the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>World Cup &#8220;czar&#8221; Maya Handa said the city is launching a soccer takeover at 50 schools, including P.S. 32 in Belmont, from Monday through June 26.<\/p>\n<p>A traveling field will roll up to the curb, close the road, and transform it into a soccer street for kids to play matches, practice skills and root for their classmates.<\/p>\n<p>The city is also hosting free fan zones in each borough with watch parties and experiences throughout the duration of the games.<\/p>\n<p>World Cup Czar Maya Handa said the city is launching a soccer takeover at 50 schools, including P.S. 32 in Belmont, from today through June 26.<\/p>\n<p>A traveling field will roll up to the curb, close the street, and flip it into a soccer street. <\/p>\n<p>It will become a place for kids to play matches, practice skills and root for their classmates. <\/p>\n<p>The city is also hosting free fan zones in each borough with watch parties and experiences throughout the duration of the games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The biggest sporting event in the world is kicking off in June at Met Life Stadium, and everyone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-227062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}