{"id":81847,"date":"2025-12-09T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/81847\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:12:07","slug":"north-texas-world-cup-organizers-speak-following-draw-schedule-reveal-watch-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/81847\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas World Cup organizers speak following draw, schedule reveal \u2013 watch live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the dust settled following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/fifa-world-cup-draw-group-stage-att-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">draw<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/2026-fifa-world-cup-matches-arlington-att-dallas-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">match schedule reveal<\/a> for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, leaders of the North Texas Organizing Committee are holding a news conference Tuesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 188 days, the first of nine World Cup matches will take place at AT&amp;T Stadium. Monica Paul, the president of the organizing committee, Dan Hunt, the president of FC Dallas and organizing committee co-chair, and Chad Estis, an executive with the Dallas Cowboys, will speak with the media at the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, FIFA announced the match schedule for the group stage. North Texans will get two chances to see Argentina and all-time great Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n<p>The scheduled matches are:<\/p>\n<p>Group F \u2013 Netherlands vs. Japan on Sunday, June 14 at 3 p.m. CTGroup L \u2013 England vs. Croatia on Wednesday, June 17 at 3 p.m. CTGroup J \u2013 Argentina vs. Austria on Monday, June 22 at 12 p.m. CTGroup F \u2013 Japan vs. the winner of UKR\/SWE\/POL\/ALB on Thursday, June 25 at 6 p.m. CTGroup J \u2013 Jordan vs. Argentina on Saturday, June 27 at 9 p.m. CT<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the five group stage matches, AT&amp;T Stadium is also hosting four matches in the knockout stage:<\/p>\n<p>Round of 32 on Tuesday, June 30\u00a0Round of 32 on Friday, July 3Round of 16 on Monday, July 6Semifinal on Tuesday, July 14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the dust settled following the draw and match schedule reveal for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, leaders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[150,430,27,29,28,3692],"class_list":{"0":"post-81847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-north-texas","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news","13":"tag-world-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81847","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=81847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}