{"id":214247,"date":"2026-06-09T04:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214247\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T04:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:14:07","slug":"philadelphia-union-ii-ivory-coast-play-in-friendly-match-ahead-of-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214247\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union II, Ivory Coast play in friendly match ahead of FIFA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Union and Ivory Coast fans filled the stands at Subaru Park for a friendly Monday night match ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Ivory Coast is using the Chester stadium as their training facility and home base for the competition. Monday&#8217;s match against Union II was to help prepare them for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Fans loved every second of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We tried to get World Cup tickets and we couldn&#8217;t, so we were excited to come here today to have a similar feel to the World Cup and do our best to have an experience,&#8221; said Jared Kohler, who is from Nazareth.<\/p>\n<p>The Union said it&#8217;s proud to be a part of the Ivory Coast&#8217;s journey. It also gives Union II a unique opportunity to play against a top team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really cool because it&#8217;s kind of like a World Cup game because one of the teams is going to be in the World Cup,&#8221; Ben Fatscher said.<\/p>\n<p>Fans said the best part is connecting with other countries and sharing their love for the game of soccer.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia will host six matches for the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union and Ivory Coast fans filled the stands at Subaru Park for a friendly Monday night match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[212,69,71,70,10227,2236],"class_list":["post-214247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-delaware-county","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-union","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214247","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=214247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}