{"id":149389,"date":"2026-03-26T20:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/149389\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:28:08","slug":"scranton-pittsburgh-and-reading-to-host-fifa-world-cup-fan-zones-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/149389\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton, Pittsburgh and Reading to host FIFA World Cup Fan Zones \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The excitement of the FIFA World Cup won&#8217;t just be something you can experience in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Brotherly Love was selected as a host city for six World Cup Matches at the Lincoln Financial Field, including a major Round of 16 match-up on the 4th of July. <\/p>\n<p>The main <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/sports\/fifa-fan-festival-philadelphia-plans-unveiled\/4371228\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA Fan Fest will be held at Lemon Hill<\/a> near the Art Museum, where fans can watch games and experience the World Cup even if they don&#8217;t have tickets. <\/p>\n<p>Now that same energy and experience will come to three additional locations across Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Josh Shapiro announced three new FIFA World Cup fan zones in Pittsburgh, Reading and Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Each fan zone will be free to the public and offer live entertainment, interactive fan experiences\u00a0and\u00a0local\u00a0food and beverages. <\/p>\n<p>NBC10 spoke with Reading Mayor Eddie Moran about what fans can expect. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are gonna create right outside the arena on Penn Street a Block party atmosphere, activities, kids activities, local vendors, concerts and of course great food,&#8221; said Moran <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The excitement of the FIFA World Cup won&#8217;t just be something you can experience in Philadelphia. The City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2233,2013,28,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-149389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}