{"id":372029,"date":"2026-07-14T02:59:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372029\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T02:59:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:59:32","slug":"france-soccer-fans-rally-in-dallas-ahead-of-world-cup-semifinal-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372029\/","title":{"rendered":"France soccer fans rally in Dallas ahead of World Cup semifinal match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/u66v83l5jsszwud6.jpg\" alt=\"France, Spain fans gather in Dallas ahead of semifinal\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/u66v83l5jsszwud6.jpg\" alt=\"France, Spain fans gather in Dallas ahead of semifinal\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-6546b402=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/video\/fmc-jbri6txqrkwzkika\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France, Spain fans gather in Dallas ahead of semifinal<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-892ef6a8=\"\">French soccer fans held a rally in Downtown Dallas at Klyde Warren Park ahead of their World Cup semifinal match on Monday night.\u00a0Hundreds of fans were seen and heard cheering, clapping, and celebrating Les Bleus&#8217; run in this year&#8217;s World Cup so far.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; France plays Spain in a World Cup semifinal in North Texas tomorrow, and fans of Les Bleus are out in full force.<\/p>\n<p>   France fan rally in Dallas <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">French soccer fans took over Klyde Warren Park in Downtown Dallas on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Drums, chants and cheers were in high supply during the rally.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Tomorrow is Bastille Day in France, which serves as the country&#8217;s independence day. Fans are hoping to celebrate both Bastille Day and a France victory over Spain in the World Cup semifinal.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Fans who attended the France fan rally were proud to see so many of their countrymen and women in attendance.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;Very proud,&#8221; French fan Marielle told FOX 4&#8217;s Amelia Jones. &#8220;We are a community that gets together and people from all over different countries get together. It is what matters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">French fans were highly energetic when Jones was signing off her 9 p.m. hit.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The other side:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Fans of Spain, the other team in Tuesday&#8217;s matchup, are fairly confident in their team&#8217;s chances.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;We&#8217;re going to the same places, we&#8217;re going to have breakfast tomorrow in the same place, we&#8217;re gonna wear the same kit, we&#8217;re gonna do the same, to be as lucky as we were against Portugal,&#8221; Pablo Verona, a Spain fan, told Jones.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Spain has already won one match in North Texas: La Roja knocked out Portugal in a Round of 16 match on July 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">France and Spain play their World Cup semifinal at 2 p.m. CT at Dallas Stadium on Tuesday, July 14.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The winner advances to the World Cup final on July 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story comes from France fans in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/world-cup\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France, Spain fans gather in Dallas ahead of semifinal French soccer fans held a rally in Downtown Dallas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,223,3692],"class_list":["post-372029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372029","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=372029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}