The FIFA World Cup knockout stage is underway, with Arlington set to host two Round of 32 matches this week as teams continue arriving in North Texas.<\/p>\n
The elimination round opened Sunday with Canada advancing by defeating South Africa.<\/p>\n
The Ivory Coast and Norway arrived at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport over the weekend ahead of their match Tuesday at AT&T Stadium. The game marks the Ivory Coast’s first appearance in the tournament’s Round of 32.<\/p>\n
Norwegian supporters have drawn attention throughout the tournament with the “Viking Row,” a fan tradition in which supporters sit together, sway back and forth and mimic rowing while chanting “Ro!”<\/p>\n
Both teams are scheduled to hold training sessions Monday at Southern Methodist University before Tuesday’s noon kickoff in Arlington.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the U.S. men’s national team has returned to its training base in Northern California ahead of its Round of 32 match Wednesday in Santa Clara.<\/p>\n
North Texas remains one of the tournament’s primary host regions, with Arlington serving as the site for multiple knockout-round matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FIFA World Cup knockout stage is underway, with Arlington set to host two Round of 32 matches…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-354438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354438","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=354438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}