{"id":1687,"date":"2026-06-26T23:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2026-06-26T23:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:00:29","slug":"friday-june-26th-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1687","title":{"rendered":"Friday, June 26th, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another great day for World Cup football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Norway benched their stars, having already been secured 2nd place, and France did not. The result? Norway 1-4 France, with the 2nd fastest Hat Trick by Dembele. Haaland never played.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Senegal 5-0 Iraq. I think that makes the highest ever scoring African team at a World Cup and secures their advancement as one of the strongest 3rd place teams.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Uruguay 0-1 Spain. That match ended with a red card and an altercation. Terribly boring match otherwise. I think the entire world is shocked at how poor the Spanish performance has been.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cape Verde 0-0 Saudi Arabia. This result put Cape Verde in 2nd and advance! Saudis were sent packing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Egypt 1-1 Iran. Incredibly heart-breaking game. Iran seemed to have won it on minute 92, but the goal was disallowed. So Iran couldn&#8217;t ensure the advance, but they&#8217;re looking good in 3rd place.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New Zealand 1-5 Belgium. I mean, the Kiwi goal was good, but they were incredibly outmatched. Overall, a boring match.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another great day for World Cup football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}