{"id":74743,"date":"2026-06-11T12:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/mexico-v-south-africa-world-cup-2026-opening-match-live\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:55:35","slug":"mexico-v-south-africa-world-cup-2026-opening-match-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/mexico-v-south-africa-world-cup-2026-opening-match-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico v South Africa: World Cup 2026 opening match \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd\ufe0f Kick-off time: 1pm local\/8pm BST\/3pm EDT\/5am AEST<br \/>\u26bd\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jun\/04\/world-cup-2026-complete-player-guide\">Player guide<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jun\/04\/bracketology-predict-a-path-to-world-cup-victory\">Bracketology<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/picture\/2026\/jun\/05\/world-cup-2026-wallchart-print-out-your-own-here\">Wallchart<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:daniel.harris.casual@theguardian.com\">Email Daniel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThat ITV studio is spectacular,\u201d reckons Kev the Poet.<\/strong> \u201cAlmost as spectacular as the nark-off between Roy Keane and anyone else. The BBC is going to have The Ghost Of Barry Davies coming out of the Manchester Ship Canal to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is \u2013 it\u2019s outdoors on the Hudson, with a sensational view of Manhattan. But I\u2019d take Barry Davies coming out of anywhere.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/jun\/11\/mexico-v-south-africa-world-cup-2026-opening-match-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd\ufe0f Kick-off time: 1pm local\/8pm BST\/3pm EDT\/5am AEST\u26bd\ufe0f Player guide | Bracketology | Wallchart | Email Daniel \u201cThat ITV studio is spectacular,\u201d reckons Kev the Poet. \u201cAlmost as spectacular as the nark-off between Roy Keane and anyone else. The BBC is going to have The Ghost Of Barry Davies coming out of the Manchester Ship &#8230; <a title=\"Mexico v South Africa: World Cup 2026 opening match \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/mexico-v-south-africa-world-cup-2026-opening-match-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mexico v South Africa: World Cup 2026 opening match \u2013 live\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74743","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\/74743","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=74743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}