{"id":75096,"date":"2026-06-19T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/turkey-v-paraguay-world-cup-2026-live\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:00:10","slug":"turkey-v-paraguay-world-cup-2026-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/turkey-v-paraguay-world-cup-2026-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey v Paraguay: World Cup 2026 \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd\ufe0f Kick-off time: 8pm local\/1pm AEST\/4am BST\/11pm 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\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jun\/04\/golden-boot-world-cup-2026-top-goalscorers-winner\">Golden Boot<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:samantha.lewis.freelance@theguardian.com\">Mail Sam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A surprise start for attacker <strong>Isidro Pitta<\/strong>, who was so certain he wouldn\u2019t be called up to Paraguay\u2019s squad for the World Cup that he had already booked a holiday to Spain with his family during the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed \u2018Viking\u2019 due to his long hair and big ginger beard, he\u2019s found form at Red Bull Bragantino and is described as \u201ca fighter, a tireless worker and a constant nuisance for opposition defences\u201d in the Guardian\u2019s World Cup player guide.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/jun\/20\/fifa-world-cup-2026-live-turkey-v-paraguay-updates-tur-vs-par-group-d-match-score-latest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd\ufe0f Kick-off time: 8pm local\/1pm AEST\/4am BST\/11pm EDT\u26bd\ufe0f Player guide | Bracketology | Golden Boot | Mail Sam A surprise start for attacker Isidro Pitta, who was so certain he wouldn\u2019t be called up to Paraguay\u2019s squad for the World Cup that he had already booked a holiday to Spain with his family during the &#8230; <a title=\"Turkey v Paraguay: World Cup 2026 \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/turkey-v-paraguay-world-cup-2026-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Turkey v Paraguay: 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-75096","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\/75096","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=75096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}