{"id":222,"date":"2025-02-11T17:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T17:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/?p=222"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:21:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:21:51","slug":"nj-monthly-what-hosting-the-2026-world-cup-means-for-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/news\/nj-monthly-what-hosting-the-2026-world-cup-means-for-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Monthly &#8211; What Hosting the 2026 World Cup Means for New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_223\" style=\"width: 788px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223\" src=\"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/NJMonthly.jpg\" alt=\"MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford is the site of the 2026 World Cup final. It&#039;s pictured here in July during a kids\u2019 clinic after a Copa America game. \" width=\"778\" height=\"519\" class=\"size-full wp-image-223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/NJMonthly.jpg 778w, https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/NJMonthly-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/NJMonthly-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: FIFA\/Fiona Caswell. MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford is the site of the 2026 World Cup final. It&#8217;s pictured here in July during a kids\u2019 clinic after a Copa America game.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis will be the biggest sports event in history for the region and the [region\u2019s] biggest economic event in history, especially since we are getting eight games, including the final,\u201d says Wes Mathews, president and CEO of ChooseNJ and president of the Host Committee Board.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/njmonthly.com\/articles\/news\/world-cup-2026-new-jersey-metlife-stadium-east-rutherford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis will be the biggest sports event in history for the region and the [region\u2019s] biggest economic event in history, especially since we are getting eight games, including the final,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","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\/222","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=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}