{"id":74765,"date":"2026-06-12T03:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/world-cup-2026-mexico-off-to-winning-start-empty-seats-in-guadalajara-usa-and-canada-enter-fray-live\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:54:53","slug":"world-cup-2026-mexico-off-to-winning-start-empty-seats-in-guadalajara-usa-and-canada-enter-fray-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/world-cup-2026-mexico-off-to-winning-start-empty-seats-in-guadalajara-usa-and-canada-enter-fray-live\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Mexico off to winning start; empty seats in Guadalajara; USA and Canada enter fray \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/11\/canada-world-cup-opening-game-jesse-marsch\">Canada tightens in anticipation<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/11\/usmnt-world-cup-preview\">What is enough for US?<\/a><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\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jun\/04\/golden-boot-world-cup-2026-top-goalscorers-winner\">Golden Boot<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:David.Tindall.casual@theguardian.com\">Mail David<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Five takeaways from the World Cup opener.<\/strong> These come courtesy of Matt Hughes who was in the Azteca (I can\u2019t bring myself to say Mexico City Stadium).<\/p>\n<p><strong>How about this: you\u2019re still tucking into your morning cornflakes and there\u2019s already a World Cup daily pod to listen to.<\/strong> Jet-lag isn\u2019t Jonathan Wilson\u2019s friend but an evening in the Azteca lifted spirits, especially Raul Jimenez\u2019s goal. Also, a glimpse behind the scenes at the first few days of Max and Barry living together in the US, insights from Barney Ronay and Jeff Rueter as well as your questions answered.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/jun\/12\/world-cup-2026-news-updates-live-usa-canada-paraguay-bosnia-herzegovina\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd\ufe0f Canada tightens in anticipation | What is enough for US?\u26bd\ufe0f Player guide | Bracketology | Golden Boot | Mail David Five takeaways from the World Cup opener. These come courtesy of Matt Hughes who was in the Azteca (I can\u2019t bring myself to say Mexico City Stadium). How about this: you\u2019re still tucking into &#8230; <a title=\"World Cup 2026: Mexico off to winning start; empty seats in Guadalajara; USA and Canada enter fray \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/world-cup-2026-mexico-off-to-winning-start-empty-seats-in-guadalajara-usa-and-canada-enter-fray-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about World Cup 2026: Mexico off to winning start; empty seats in Guadalajara; USA and Canada enter fray \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-74765","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\/74765","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=74765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}