{"id":330915,"date":"2026-06-10T17:21:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/330915\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:21:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:21:28","slug":"fifa-fan-festival-launches-in-houston-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/330915\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Fan Festival launches in Houston, Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

TEXAS \u2014 As World Cup fever continues to take Texas by storm, fans from all over the world will soon have a place to converge for the festivities.<\/p>\n

FIFA Fan Festival is a free, open-to-the-public event serving as a home base for soccer fans in Dallas and Houston.<\/p>\n

The Dallas festival<\/a> takes place at Fair Park, home of the State Fair of Texas. Attendees can watch live match broadcasts, enjoy food courts, concerts, games and even play their own matches in a mini-pitch zone.<\/p>\n

The celebration continues<\/a> over in Houston, where the city\u2019s east downtown area will become a giant viewing party. Attractions include a 7v7 synthetic turf soccer field for fans, youth teams and community groups, a projection dome featuring the FIFA World Cup 2026 match ball, a food hall and more.<\/p>\n

Both festivals are open from June 11 to July 19.<\/p>\n

Houston is hosting seven World Cup matches, including two games in the knockout phase. North Texas is hosting nine matches in Arlington, including five group stage games, knockout games and a semi-final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014 As World Cup fever continues to take Texas by storm, fans from all over the world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14209,1226,102,104,103,56,14210,223,27,3692,29003],"class_list":["post-330915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-app-human-interest","tag-christine-sanchez","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-houston","tag-human-interest","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330915","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=330915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}