{"id":54676,"date":"2026-07-13T22:42:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/54676\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:42:30","slug":"expect-final-like-atmosphere-for-spain-france-world-cup-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/54676\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect final-like atmosphere for Spain-France World Cup semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two years ago, when the locations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup games were announced,\u00a0Cowboys<\/a> owner Jerry Jones pointed to the positives.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will act like it\u2019s the final game,\u201d Jones said at a news conference in 2024, \u201cand every game, we will act like it\u2019s the final game, because we want to show them. And we want to show them not only what this area is about, but we want to show them why this stadium is here to begin with.\u201d<\/p>\n

The final World Cup match in Texas is set for 2 p.m. Tuesday<\/a> in Arlington. And while it isn\u2019t the finale of the tournament, there should be a finale-like atmosphere between France and Spain. France enters as the No. 1-ranked team in the world in FIFA\u2019s rankings, while Spain is ranked third. The winner will face either Argentina or England on Sunday in New Jersey, and the losing teams will play a match in Miami for third place.<\/p>\n

Jones will be in attendance to watch the game in the home stadium of the Cowboys, along with his family, corporate partners and others.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys owner should be far from the only high-profile visitor Tuesday. The venue has already drawn celebrities over the course of the eight previous games. Actor Samuel\u00a0L. Jackson has watched a match. So have musicians Shakira and Iggy Azalea. Other athletes, including Dirk Nowitzki<\/a>, Cooper Flagg, Von Miller and Dez Bryant,<\/a> have also attended matches in Arlington.<\/p>\n

Regulars at Spain\u2019s matches this summer have included Spanish actors\u00a0Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, who have been married since 2010.\u00a0They attended Spain\u2019s\u00a0quarterfinal win over Belgium in Inglewood, Calif., along with\u00a0Brad Pitt and\u00a0Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two years ago, when the locations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup games were announced,\u00a0Cowboys owner Jerry Jones…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22327,17,21845,22328,23097],"class_list":["post-54676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-brief","tag-spain","tag-tp-world-cup","tag-tp-att-stadium","tag-tp-jerry-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}