{"id":230012,"date":"2026-06-28T01:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/230012\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T01:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:30:36","slug":"croatia-fans-march-huge-banner-through-downtown-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/230012\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatia Fans March Huge Banner Through Downtown Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Croatia fans marched a huge banner through Downtown Philadelphia on Friday, June 26, ahead of their <a data-ylk=\"slk:game against Ghana.;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:\/\/www.fifa.com\/en\/match-centre\/match\/17\/285023\/289273\/400021509\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">game against Ghana.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Aerial footage captured by @\u200cgramofkriss shows fans walk with the banner emblazoned with the words &#8220;Proud to be Croat&#8221; past Philadelphia City Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Elsewhere, Croatia fans <a data-ylk=\"slk:were seen;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:\/\/newswire.storyful.com\/story\/344242\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">were seen<\/a> dancing and chanting with newlyweds and their wedding party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Croatia secured their place in the last 32 of the World Cup after <a data-ylk=\"slk:beating Ghana 2-1.;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:\/\/www.fifa.com\/en\/match-centre\/match\/17\/285023\/289273\/400021509\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">beating Ghana 2-1.<\/a> Credit: @\u200cgramofkriss via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Croatia fans marched a huge banner through Downtown Philadelphia on Friday, June 26, ahead of their game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[63337,95552,99394,55610,69,5550,71,70],"class_list":["post-230012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-aerial-footage","tag-croatia","tag-downtown-philadelphia","tag-ghana","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-city-hall","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230012","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=230012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}