{"id":777247,"date":"2026-07-22T05:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777247\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T05:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:20:10","slug":"fifa-leave-pau-cubarsi-out-of-vote-for-world-cup-2026-dream-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777247\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA leave Pau Cubarsi out of vote for World Cup 2026 Dream XI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Barcelona defender Pau Cubarsi was one of the stars of World Cup 2026. The defender was part of a Spanish backline that conceded just once on their way to being crowned world champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">However, all of that was not enough to impress FIFA. The game\u2019s governing body is currently running a vote to decide the \u201cDream XI\u201d of World Cup 2026 and Cubarsi is not an option.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The defenders who supporters are able to choose for their dream teams are: Lisandro Martinez, Nuno Mendes, Marc Cucurella, Virgil van Dijk, Gabriel Magalhaes, Cristiano Romero, Dayot Upamecano and Pedro Porro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">There are some other Spanish players in the running to make the XI. Unai Simon is one of the nominees in goal, Rodri and Lamine Yamal make the midfield list and Mikel Oyarzabal is in the frame when it comes to attackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona defender Pau Cubarsi was one of the stars of World Cup 2026. The defender was part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99,153412],"class_list":["post-777247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777247","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=777247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}