{"id":9032,"date":"2026-06-15T09:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/world-cup-today-all-the-live-news-updates-from-the-opening-four-days-of-the-2026-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T09:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:28:14","slug":"world-cup-today-all-the-live-news-updates-from-the-opening-four-days-of-the-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/world-cup-today-all-the-live-news-updates-from-the-opening-four-days-of-the-2026-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Today: All the live news updates from the opening four days of the 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest oddities of the 2026 World Cup from a U.S. fan perspective is the renaming of several recognizable American football venues due to FIFA sponsorship rules.<\/p>\n<p>MetLife Stadium, where the New York Giants and New York Jets play, is now \u201cNew York New Jersey Stadium.\u201d AT&amp;T Stadium is now \u201cDallas Stadium\u201d. SoFi Stadium is now \u201cLos Angeles Stadium.\u201d And Levi\u2019s Stadium, which hosted the Super Bowl just four months ago, is now \u201cSan Francisco Bay Area Stadium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s created awkward scenes, such as taped-up signs across concourses and awkward-looking sheets covering familiar logos.<\/p>\n<p>Not every naming sponsor of those stadiums is taking their FIFA-approved medicine. Levi Strauss &amp; Co., the clothing company behind the iconic Levi\u2019s Jeans brand, has changed the logo of its official Levi\u2019s account to match the covered-up logo at its namesake stadium, and also mockingly welcomed fans to \u201cthe beautiful [redacted] stadium\u201d in a social media post showing scenes from Saturday\u2019s Qatar-Switzerland match there.<\/p>\n<p>The ban on non-FIFA-approved corporate partners goes beyond just stadium names and even extends to condiments and credit card machines, as <em>Melanie Anzidei<\/em> details.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest oddities of the 2026 World Cup from a U.S. fan perspective is the renaming of several recognizable American football venues due to FIFA sponsorship rules. MetLife Stadium, where the New York Giants and New York Jets play, is now \u201cNew York New Jersey Stadium.\u201d AT&amp;T Stadium is now \u201cDallas Stadium\u201d. SoFi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1281,6272,263,1143,5113,4100,4082,1217],"class_list":{"0":"post-9032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upcoming-games","8":"tag-cup","9":"tag-days","10":"tag-live","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-opening","13":"tag-today","14":"tag-updates","15":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}