{"id":698609,"date":"2026-06-11T23:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/698609\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:18:10","slug":"2026-fifa-mens-world-cup-how-united-states-can-reach-the-round-of-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/698609\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 FIFA Men&#8217;s World Cup: How United States can reach the Round of 32"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"g-text  svelte-i37gsg\">The United States has an 85% chance of making it to the Round of 32 in the 2026 World Cup. They are in Group D; their first match is against Paraguay on June 12 in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-i37gsg\">If they win the group, they\u2019ll play a third-place team from Groups B, E, F, I or J in their first knockout game in San Francisco on July 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-i37gsg\">If they get second, they\u2019ll play the Group G runner-up in Dallas on July 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-i37gsg\">If they advance as a third-place team, they\u2019ll play a group winner from Group E, I or K in Boston, Kansas City or New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-i37gsg g-text_last\">The tables below represent a schedule of World Cup matches. Pick a winner and see what happens to the United States\u2019 chances. As you pick winners, the colors on some games and outcomes will change.<\/p>\n<p>Better for the U.S. Doesn&#8217;t matter Worse for the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"match-list__remaining svelte-4mqlwa\">Matches outside Group D only impact the qualification chances of teams who finish in third place. Show me all matches.<\/p>\n<p>Read more United States coverage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States has an 85% chance of making it to the Round of 32 in the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-698609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698609","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=698609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}