{"id":247396,"date":"2026-07-19T23:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T23:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247396\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T23:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T23:13:10","slug":"folks-watch-the-world-cup-3rd-place-match-at-the-fifa-fan-zone-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247396\/","title":{"rendered":"Folks watch the World Cup 3rd place match at the FIFA fan zone in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the second-to-last day of the FIFA fan zone, fans watched England defeat France and listened to numerous musical acts, headlined by the band Hanson.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Soccer fans had their rally caps on this afternoon in the Electric City.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton&#8217;s<\/a> FIFA fan zone returned to Courthouse Square this afternoon as the World Cup watch party heads into its final matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saturday featured multiple musical acts, with the band &#8220;Hanson&#8221; as the headlining act. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for the soccer portion of the event, attendees watched France and England battle for third place in the tournament with England coming out on top.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is the last day of the FIFA World Cup fan zone, with Argentina set to battle it out with Spain for first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the second-to-last day of the FIFA fan zone, fans watched England defeat France and listened to numerous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-247396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247396","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=247396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}