A man from Fort Worth became the 50 millionth fan to attend a World Cup game since 1930 – the milestone was reached in Texas during the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n
It happened during the match between Spain and Portugal at Dallas Stadium in Arlington on Monday, July 6.<\/p>\n
Immy Khan, whose family is originally from Pakistan, attended his ninth match and was surprised by the news. FIFA legends Carles Puyol and Pepe presented him with a giant ticket to mark the milestone, according to FIFA\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat an incredible experience! We\u2019re blessed to be hosting so many incredible visitors, welcoming us to the city of Dallas, the city of Fort Worth. What a great city to be the 50 millionth fan. This is my ninth game attending. I can\u2019t wait to attend more FIFA World Cups in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
The man, who also attended matches in Mexico, said he especially enjoyed seeing how the tournament brought together people from across the region and around the world. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the beautiful game. We love supporting FIFA, we love supporting the United States, Spain, Portugal, all the beautiful cities in Canada, United States and Mexico,\u201d said Khan. \u201cWe\u2019re here for the FIFA World Cup, we\u2019re here for FIFA, and we\u2019re here to celebrate the beautiful game of football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man from Fort Worth became the 50 millionth fan to attend a World Cup game since 1930…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3691,150,152,151,3692],"class_list":["post-365901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365901","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=365901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}