{"id":215,"date":"2025-04-19T16:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/?p=215"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:29:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:29:01","slug":"insidefifa-gianni-infantino-visits-site-of-fifa-world-cup-26-fan-fest-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/news\/insidefifa-gianni-infantino-visits-site-of-fifa-world-cup-26-fan-fest-in-philadelphia\/","title":{"rendered":"InsideFIFA &#8211; Gianni Infantino visits site of FIFA World Cup 26\u2122 fan fest in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_216\" style=\"width: 1609px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216\" class=\"wp-image-216 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Gianni-Infantino.jpg\" alt=\"FIFA President Gianni Infantino has visited the site of the FIFA World Cup 26 \" width=\"1599\" height=\"890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Gianni-Infantino.jpg 1599w, https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Gianni-Infantino-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Gianni-Infantino-1024x570.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Gianni-Infantino-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Gianni-Infantino-1536x855.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1599px) 100vw, 1599px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from Inside.FIFA.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>FIFA President Gianni Infantino has visited the site of the FIFA World Cup 26 in Host City Philadelphia on April 10th, 2025 and met the leadership of Philadelphia Soccer 2026, the local organising committee.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Brotherly Love will host six matches at next year&#8217;s tournament, which will be played from 11 June to 19 July 2025 and will be the biggest-ever with 48 teams playing in 16 Host Cities across three countries \u2013 Canada, Mexico and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia is also the venue for eight games in the FIFA Club World Cup 2025, putting it at the centre of the soccer world and making a total of 14 mouth-watering games which Mr Infantino likened to hosting \u201c14 Super Bowls\u201d. All matches will take place at Lincoln Financial Field, the home of the Super Bowl Champions Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.fifa.com\/organisation\/president\/news\/gianni-infantino-visits-site-of-world-cup-26-fan-fest-in-philadelphia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA President Gianni Infantino has visited the site of the FIFA World Cup 26 in Host City Philadelphia on April 10th, 2025 and met the leadership of Philadelphia Soccer 2026, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}