{"id":269776,"date":"2026-06-17T17:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269776\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:24:11","slug":"soccer-legends-zidane-kaka-and-marcelo-sign-autographs-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269776\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer Legends Zidane, Kaka, and Marcelo Sign Autographs in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fans were starstruck as three soccer legends &#8211; France&#8217;s Zinedine Zidane and Brazilians Kaka and Marcelo \u2013 arrived at Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York City on June 14, as part of the public space was given over to a five-week World Cup event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage from Brooklyn resident Namu-Ujin Natsagnyam shows the former players signing autographs for fans at the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Adidas Home of Soccer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklynbridgepark.org\/adidas-home-of-soccer\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Adidas Home of Soccer<\/a> site, which included a mini soccer pitch, food vendors, a beer garden, and was hosting live screenings of World Cup matches. Credit: Namu-Ujin Natsagnyam via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans were starstruck as three soccer legends &#8211; France&#8217;s Zinedine Zidane and Brazilians Kaka and Marcelo \u2013 arrived&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[104077,16561,104074,104075,104076,9,56,63,65,64,104073,95879,104072],"class_list":["post-269776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-adidas-home-of-soccer","tag-brooklyn-bridge-park","tag-kaka","tag-marcelo","tag-namu-ujin-natsagnyam","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-soccer-legends","tag-world-cup-matches","tag-zinedine-zidane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269776","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=269776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}