{"id":84131,"date":"2025-12-11T05:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84131\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T05:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:36:16","slug":"messi-stokes-dallas-hopes-for-economic-boost-from-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84131\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi Stokes Dallas Hopes for Economic Boost From 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Argentine superstar Lionel Messi will potentially play at least two FIFA World Cup games in the Dallas area next year, fueling hopes among local officials for a bigger economic gain from the global soccer tournament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Existing projections for an impact of $1.5 billion to $2.1 billion may be revised upward after the release of a schedule showing that Dallas will host defending champion Argentina and matches featuring other global soccer powers, said Monica Paul, executive director of the Dallas Sports Commission.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Argentine superstar Lionel Messi will potentially play at least two FIFA World Cup games in the Dallas area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40502,102,104,103,37274,40503,17420,40504,40505,731,154,3814,6208],"class_list":{"0":"post-84131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-argentina","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-fifa","13":"tag-inter-miami-cf","14":"tag-japan","15":"tag-netherlands","16":"tag-pursuits","17":"tag-soccer","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-tourism","20":"tag-travel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84131","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=84131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}