{"id":345715,"date":"2026-06-22T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/345715\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:56:08","slug":"world-cup-in-houston-when-portugal-and-uzbekistan-will-hold-fanwalks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/345715\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup in Houston: When Portugal and Uzbekistan will hold fanwalks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal and\u00a0Uzbekistan will both hold fan marches ahead of Tuesday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/world-cup\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> matchup in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal\u2019s\u00a0fanwalk will start at the Smith Lands South Parking Lot at 9 a.m. while the Uzbekistan march begins at Helix Park, also at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s match kicks off at noon.<\/p>\n<p>The two fan matches come after thousands took to the streets of Houston on Saturday ahead of the Netherlands-Sweden match. Houston\u2019s local host committee said about 30,000 people participated in the fan marches, including around 25,000 who joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/world-cup\/article\/netherlands-sweden-houston-orangewalk-22311404.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">famous Dutch\u00a0Oranje Fanwalk that started<\/a> at Rice University.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands blew past Sweden for a 5-1 win.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s\u00a0matchup between Portugal and Uzbekistan is the fourth of seven matchups in Houston during the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Uzbekistan fell to Colombia in its World Cup debut but Abbosbek Fayzullaev scored the team\u2019s first goal in the competition. The White Wolves are coached by Fabio Cannavaro, the 2006 Ballon d\u2019Or winner who captained Italy to a championship at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the\u00a0fanwalk, an Uzbekistan fan zone at Helix Park will have programming Monday night as well as Tuesday morning and afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portugal and\u00a0Uzbekistan will both hold fan marches ahead of Tuesday\u2019s FIFA World Cup matchup in Houston. Portugal\u2019s\u00a0fanwalk will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-345715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345715","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=345715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}