{"id":41603,"date":"2025-11-20T10:50:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/world-cup-2026-countries-celebrate-qualification\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:50:32","slug":"world-cup-2026-countries-celebrate-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/world-cup-2026-countries-celebrate-qualification\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Countries celebrate qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Hundreds celebrated as the tiny Caribbean island of Curacao became the smallest nation to ever qualify for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In Panama City, thousands partied in the capital after a win over El Salvador booked their place in next year&#8217;s tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Haiti fans danced on the streets after the country confirmed qualification for a first World Cup since 1974.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Meanwhile in Scotland, fans rejoiced and chanted in bars after a 4-2 win against Denmark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The expanded 2026 World Cup format, which features 48 nations instead of 32, is being held in Canada, Mexico and the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c7090z14dpyo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds celebrated as the tiny Caribbean island of Curacao became the smallest nation to ever qualify for the World Cup. In Panama City, thousands partied in the capital after a win over El Salvador booked their place in next year&#8217;s tournament. Haiti fans danced on the streets after the country confirmed qualification for a first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41605,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41603\/revisions\/41605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}