{"id":14648,"date":"2026-05-08T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/14648\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:17:09","slug":"belgium-picks-seattle-for-world-cup-base-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/14648\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium picks Seattle for World Cup base camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/KM4LNG62X3REFI6YZTLZNDFMII.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>The Seattle Sounders announced that the Belgian men\u2019s national soccer team will \u201cuse the Sounders\u2019 Renton headquarters as its temporary home\u201d during the 2026 World Cup. Sounders <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The Sounders announced that the Belgian men\u2019s national soccer team will \u201cuse the Sounders\u2019 Renton headquarters as its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/04\/2026-fifa-world-cup-base-camps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/04\/2026-fifa-world-cup-base-camps\/\">temporary home<\/a>\u201d during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Belgium\u2019s first match is June 15 against Egypt in Seattle, followed by a June 21 match in Vancouver and a June 26 match in Inglewood, Calif. Spokane\u2019s Gonzaga Univ. is the \u201cother potential base camp in Washington\u201d and is \u201cstill listed as available on FIFA\u2019s website,\u201d though it is reported to have been claimed by Egypt\u2019s national team (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/news\/2026\/05\/07\/fifa-world-cup-renton-sounders-belgium-providence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/news\/2026\/05\/07\/fifa-world-cup-renton-sounders-belgium-providence.html\">PUGET SOUND BUSINESS JOURNAL, 5\/7<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Sounders announced that the Belgian men\u2019s national soccer team will \u201cuse the Sounders\u2019 Renton headquarters as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,1608,3934],"class_list":{"0":"post-14648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-international","10":"tag-soccer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116538916670486761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}