{"id":74923,"date":"2026-06-15T18:56:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/iran-v-new-zealand-world-cup-2026-live\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T18:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:56:39","slug":"iran-v-new-zealand-world-cup-2026-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/iran-v-new-zealand-world-cup-2026-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran v New Zealand: World Cup 2026 \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd\ufe0f Kick-off time: 6pm local\/11am AEST\/2am BST\/9pm EDT<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:martin.pegan@theguardian.com\">Mail Martin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Maree Mahony<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand, known as the All Whites, are back at the World Cup for just the third time, thanks to winning the Oceania region\u2019s sole qualifying spot. Since their last World Cup in 2010 New Zealand have evolved from part-timers to professionals and there is belief they have the skillset and experience to make the knockout rounds for the first time.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/jun\/16\/fifa-world-cup-2026-live-iran-v-new-zealand-updates-irn-vs-nzl-group-f-match-score-latest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd\ufe0f Kick-off time: 6pm local\/11am AEST\/2am BST\/9pm EDT\u26bd\ufe0f Player guide | Bracketology | Wallchart | Mail Martin By Maree Mahony New Zealand, known as the All Whites, are back at the World Cup for just the third time, thanks to winning the Oceania region\u2019s sole qualifying spot. Since their last World Cup in 2010 New &#8230; <a title=\"Iran v New Zealand: World Cup 2026 \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/iran-v-new-zealand-world-cup-2026-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Iran v New Zealand: World Cup 2026 \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-74923","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\/74923","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=74923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}