{"id":290482,"date":"2026-05-13T02:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/290482\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:03:08","slug":"downtown-plano-kicks-off-world-cup-season-with-japan-day-ultras-meets-plano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/290482\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Plano kicks off World Cup season with &#8216;Japan Day: Ultras Meets Plano&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Cup season is nearly upon us, and Downtown Plano is kicking off the first Japan-Netherlands match with a celebration.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Dallas-Fort Worth\u2019s summer of soccer is kicking off soon with the World Cup, and Plano is celebrating with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitplano.com\/welcome-soccer-fans-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cJapan Day: Ultras Meets Plano,\u201d<\/a> an event before the night of the first featured match between Japan and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>The event, held at <a href=\"https:\/\/planomagazine.com\/things-to-do-this-may26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McCall Plaza<\/a> in the Historic Downtown Plano Arts District, will include live music from a Japanese musician and a DJ, food and drinks, a full bar and a cultural exchange experience connecting Plano and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>A supporter cheer exchange will take place between the Japan National Team supporters, Ultras Nippon and FC Dallas supporters, the Dallas Beer Guardians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis event is about more than soccer,\u201d said Plano Mayor John Muns. \u201cIt\u2019s about culture, community, music, and creating connections between people from around the world right here in Downtown Plano.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event will take place on Friday, June 13 at 6 p.m. and is open to everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Cup season is nearly upon us, and Downtown Plano is kicking off the first Japan-Netherlands match with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-290482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}