{"id":583764,"date":"2026-03-30T12:08:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportivo.news\/?p=583764"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:17:13","slug":"world-cup-2026-news-live-updates-latest-on-final-qualifying-matches-ticket-information-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportivo.news\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/world-cup-2026-news-live-updates-latest-on-final-qualifying-matches-ticket-information-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026 news live updates: Latest on final qualifying matches, ticket information and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sportivo.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bqXZCrnOIwFv_0uESZ7UKANKC_1440x960.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes getting smacked in the face with reality is exactly what you need. What happened last fall was great for this U.S. men\u2019s national team. A victorious run was important and valuable to build confidence and belief. <\/p>\n<p>And it is the right message from U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino to encourage this team to \u201cbe realistic and do the impossible.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But the U.S. cannot afford to forget the first part of that tag line. Saturday\u2019s 5-2 loss to Belgium was as clear a reminder as a team can get. \u201cI think it\u2019s a good reality check for us,\u201d Pochettino said.<\/p>\n<p>The very best U.S. teams play with an underdog mentality. But the U.S. isn\u2019t good enough to relax against the elite. It can\u2019t coast to the latter stage of the World Cup that Pochettino dreams of and has stated as a target.<\/p>\n<p>It cannot afford to drop its intensity \u2014 not against the strongest of opponents. It has to match and surpass the work of those opponents in order to get the results it\u2019s seeking.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday was a warning. Tuesday, against another world-class team in Portugal, is the first chance to show the U.S. can take its lesson, turn around and set things right.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s why a 5-2 loss to Belgium in March, unpleasant as it was, could end up being a good thing come June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes getting smacked in the face with reality is exactly what you need. What happened last fall was great for this U.S. men\u2019s national team. A victorious run was important and valuable to build confidence and belief. And it is the right message from U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino to encourage ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":583766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"featured_image":"https:\/\/sportivo.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bqXZCrnOIwFv_0uESZ7UKANKC_1440x960.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportivo.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportivo.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportivo.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportivo.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportivo.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportivo.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583767,"href":"https:\/\/sportivo.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583764\/revisions\/583767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportivo.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportivo.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportivo.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportivo.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}