{"id":701679,"date":"2026-06-13T12:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/701679\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:20:10","slug":"world-cup-2026-when-are-scotland-playing-haiti-in-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/701679\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: When are Scotland playing Haiti in the World Cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Pitch perfect fan fest&#8217;published at 12:39 BST<\/p>\n<p>12:39 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Haiti v Scotland (Sun, 02:00 BST)<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Today's Boston Globe front page, including a feature on the 'Pitch perfect fan fest' in the city, featuring interviews with Scottish fans preparing for their World Cup opener\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/80a18f3c-6887-4a60-8ed9-51f8b61a7b7b.jpg.webp\"  width=\"675\" height=\"631\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Boston Globe<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Boston Globe reports that &#8220;thousands of soccer faithful poured into City Hall Plaza on Friday&#8221; to begin a 16-day free World Cup fan festival at the site. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nearly 150,000 peple have registered for tickets to Boston&#8217;s dedicated fan zone, which has a capacity of 5,000. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Globe reported that &#8220;scores of Scots in tartan kilts&#8221; were among those gathered at the Plaza yesterday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris MacLean, 47, of Edinburgh, was one of those who attended with his eight-year-old son, Lewis. They both have tickets for Scotland&#8217;s opener, which kicks off at 02:00 BST on Sunday, 14 June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris told the Globe that his son was shocked to hear Scotland had not been at a World Cup for 28 years and pleaded with his dad to take him to this tournament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My son dropped quite the emotional baggage on us that day,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Now we couldn&#8217;t be happier. I could be pushin&#8217; up daisies, you know, waiting another 28 years.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Pitch perfect fan fest&#8217;published at 12:39 BST 12:39 BST Haiti v Scotland (Sun, 02:00 BST) Image source, Boston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-701679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701679","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=701679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}