{"id":301720,"date":"2026-07-21T13:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301720\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T13:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:01:09","slug":"what-will-world-cup-2026-bump-mean-for-mls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301720\/","title":{"rendered":"What will World Cup 2026 bump mean for MLS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer has a home in America.<\/p>\n<p>That was made clear during the World Cup, which harnessed the power of the world\u2019s most popular sport and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/21\/sports\/world-cup-will-pay-off-for-soccer-in-us-but-real-growth-is-a-slow-burn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was embraced domestically<\/a> like never before.<\/p>\n<p>The record-setting ratings are proof that the ingredients for growth rest within this sports-loving, multi-cultural population. Shifting demographics and rising generations promise the future will look different in a nation that once treated baseball, boxing and horse racing as the holy trinity of sports.<\/p>\n<p>But how does MLS fit into that future?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soccer has a home in America. That was made clear during the World Cup, which harnessed the power&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22381,6497,9,24,55,54,56,4780,400,319,428,14771,33009],"class_list":["post-301720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-beyond-the-back-page","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301720","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=301720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}