{"id":10871,"date":"2026-06-12T15:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/?p=10871"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:09:10","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/fifa-world-cup-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\">\n<p>The World Cup started on Thursday, 11th June, and will be the biggest and most spectacular event in the history of football. The three hosts &#8211; the <em>USA, Mexico and Canada<\/em> &#8211; welcome a record breaking <strong>48<\/strong> national teams.<\/p>\n<p>These teams are divided into <strong>12<\/strong> groups of four. A total of <strong>104<\/strong> matches will be played <em>between June 11 and July 19<\/em>, with the <em>final game on July 19 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunatley the <em>Slovenian<\/em> national team did not secure a place at the tournament. Only two neighboring countries, <em>Austria<\/em> and <em>Croatia<\/em> were successful, white <em>Italy<\/em> and <em>Hungary<\/em> also failed to qualify, which is a big disappointment, especally for Italy. To advance to the second round, Austria will play in Group <strong>J<\/strong> together with <em>Algeria, Jordan and Argentina<\/em> &#8211; the current world champions. Croatia, aiming high as always, is placed in Group <strong>L<\/strong> together with <em>Panama, Ghana and group favorites England<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Statistical analysis and bookmakers place these six teams among the main favorites: <em>Spain<\/em> in the first place, followed by <em>France<\/em>, <em>England, Argentina, Portugal<\/em> and <em>Brazil<\/em>. According to current betting calculations, a <em>1 Euro<\/em> bet on Spain to win would bring <em>between 4 and 5 Euros<\/em> in profit, while such bet on Austria would yield around <em>150 Euros<\/em> in earnings. Experts estimate that the tournament will &#8222;generate&#8220; <em>80 billion dollars<\/em> in gross economic activity, predominantly for the USA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .vgblk-rw-wrapper --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Cup started on Thursday, 11th June, and will be the biggest and most spectacular event in the history of football. The three hosts \u2013 the USA, Mexico and Canada \u2013 welcome a record breaking 48 national teams. These teams are divided into 12 groups of four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9000804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-10871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9000804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}