{"id":347113,"date":"2026-06-23T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347113\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:03:08","slug":"portugal-prime-minister-luis-montenegro-attends-world-cup-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347113\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal Prime Minister Lu\u00eds Montenegro attends World Cup in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal Prime Minister\u00a0Lu\u00eds Montenegro is in Houston for the national team\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/world-cup\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">2026 FIFA World Cup<\/a> match Tuesday against\u00a0Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<p>Montenegro is the latest dignitary to come to Houston to watch the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal has one of the most talented rosters in the tournament, highlighted by the 41-year-old legend Cristiano Ronaldo. But the trio of Vitinha, Jo\u00e3o\u00a0Neves and Bruno Fernandes headline arguably the best midfield group in the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The country has never won a World Cup and is one of the more notable nations to have never done so. It came closest in its first tournament in 1966 when\u00a0Eus\u00e9bio led Portugal to a third-place finish. The best finish during\u00a0Ronaldo\u2019s two-plus decades on the national team came in 2006, his first World Cup, when Portugal finished in fourth place.<\/p>\n<p>Montenegro started his time as prime minister in April 2024. He is also the leader of the Social Democratic Party in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Before the start of the tournament, Montenegro gifted each member of the national team a wristband bearing the name of Diogo Joto, the Portuguese forward who was set to be a key member of the team but died in a car crash last year at 28.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe let us choose if we wanted to use it or not, during the day or during the match,&#8221; Vitinha said earlier in the month about the wristbands,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/17\/sport\/the-beautiful-game-june-17\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">per CNN<\/a>. We received it with a lot of affection and we chose to use it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s match is the fourth of seven that will take place in Houston this June and July, and the second one to feature Portugal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portugal Prime Minister\u00a0Lu\u00eds Montenegro is in Houston for the national team\u2019s 2026 FIFA World Cup match Tuesday against\u00a0Uzbekistan.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-347113","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\/347113","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=347113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}