{"id":759809,"date":"2026-07-13T05:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759809\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T05:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:54:09","slug":"ibrahima-konate-insists-france-wont-fall-into-lamine-yamals-trap-as-he-responds-to-spain-stars-fear-claim-ahead-of-world-cup-semi-final-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759809\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibrahima Konate insists France won&#8217;t fall into Lamine Yamal&#8217;s &#8216;trap&#8217; as he responds to Spain star&#8217;s &#8216;fear&#8217; claim ahead of World Cup semi-final clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tension is rising ahead of the heavyweight 2026 World Cup semi-final in Arlington, Texas. Following Spain&#8217;s quarter-final victory over Belgium, Barcelona sensation Yamal went on the offensive, suggesting that France should be the ones feeling the pressure given recent history between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>Konate, however, was quick to dismiss the teenager&#8217;s comments. &#8220;Is France afraid of Spain? No. To be completely honest, we don\u2019t pay attention to everything that\u2019s said leading up to the game,&#8221; he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We shouldn\u2019t be afraid of anyone. The important thing is to maintain the humility with which we started this competition and not fall into those kinds of traps, especially at a time like this. He can say whatever he wants. We\u2019re going to prepare for the game as best we can, and I hope that, when it\u2019s over, the result will be in our favour.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tension is rising ahead of the heavyweight 2026 World Cup semi-final in Arlington, Texas. Following Spain&#8217;s quarter-final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[594,104351,116838,403,3662,99,84938],"class_list":["post-759809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-france","tag-i-konate","tag-l-yamal","tag-soccer","tag-spain","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759809","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=759809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}