{"id":74341,"date":"2026-06-02T14:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/excited-but-wary-fans-in-the-16-host-cities-share-their-hopes-and-fears-before-the-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:55:24","slug":"excited-but-wary-fans-in-the-16-host-cities-share-their-hopes-and-fears-before-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/excited-but-wary-fans-in-the-16-host-cities-share-their-hopes-and-fears-before-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Excited but wary\u2019: fans in the 16 host cities share their hopes and fears before the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first of a new series of dispatches, fans in US, Mexico and Canada tell us that they want visitors to have a good time but are angry about ticket prices, Fifa\u2019s priorities and a lack of long-term thinking from politicians<\/p>\n<p><em>The 2026 World Cup features 104 matches in 16 cities across Canada, Mexico and the USA, from Vancouver to Mexico City and San Francisco to Boston. Before, throughout and after the tournament we\u2019ll be hearing from fans in those cities about their experiences \u2013 some shared and some different \u2013 in our \u201cMy World Cup\u201d series. Here some of our correspondents share their first thoughts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/02\/world-cup-fans-16-host-cities-us-mexico-canada-fifa-ticket-prices\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first of a new series of dispatches, fans in US, Mexico and Canada tell us that they want visitors to have a good time but are angry about ticket prices, Fifa\u2019s priorities and a lack of long-term thinking from politicians The 2026 World Cup features 104 matches in 16 cities across Canada, Mexico &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Excited but wary\u2019: fans in the 16 host cities share their hopes and fears before the World Cup\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/excited-but-wary-fans-in-the-16-host-cities-share-their-hopes-and-fears-before-the-world-cup\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Excited but wary\u2019: fans in the 16 host cities share their hopes and fears before the World Cup\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}