{"id":332455,"date":"2025-12-05T18:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332455\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:03:07","slug":"2026-fifa-world-cup-draw-live-updates-groups-matches-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332455\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 FIFA World Cup draw live updates: groups, matches, reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time!<\/p>\n<p>The eyes and fate of several nations will be focused on the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., for the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/fifa.world\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> group stage draw.<\/p>\n<p>Follow along for live updates, key statistics and instant reaction as we discover how the 48 teams will be placed across the United States, Mexico and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve groups of four will shape the road toward lifting soccer&#8217;s biggest prize next summer in North America.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Jump to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/47182147\/2026-fifa-world-cup-draw-live-updates-groups-matches-reaction#LIVE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live updates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time! The eyes and fate of several nations will be focused on the Kennedy Center in Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-332455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}