{"id":427025,"date":"2025-12-05T18:19:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T18:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:19:26","slug":"world-cup-2026-draw-live-england-scotland-and-usa-learn-opponents-as-donald-trump-takes-centre-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427025\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026 draw LIVE: England, Scotland and USA learn opponents as Donald Trump takes centre stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Live Blog<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tTHE WORLD AWAITS\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/crop-37540867.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15596006\"\/><\/p>\n<p>THE World Cup draw is now underway as England and Scotland learn their group stage opponents for next summer. <\/p>\n<p>The revamped tournament sees 48 teams travel to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/sport\/football\/team\/6218380\/usa\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/sport\/football\/team\/187841\/mexico\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/sport\/football\/team\/6218398\/canada\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a> for the 2026 World Cup in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for the Sport newsletter\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/who\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> is in Washington DC for the draw and has taken to the stage to collect his \u2018Fifa Peace Prize\u2019. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Start time:<\/strong> 5pm GMT \/ 12pm ET<\/li>\n<li><strong>TV channel:<\/strong> BBC Two \/ Fox <\/li>\n<li><strong>FREE stream:<\/strong> BBC iPlayer \/ Fifa YouTube channel<\/li>\n<li><strong>Explainer: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/sport\/15589247\/world-cup-2026-draw-format-how-it-works\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How does the draw work<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>CASINO SPECIAL \u2013 BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM \u00a310 DEPOSITS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow ALL the latest with our live blog below\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Live Blog THE WORLD AWAITS THE World Cup draw is now underway as England and Scotland learn their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":427026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[6687,221,34567,62,67,132,68,105860],"class_list":{"0":"post-427025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-live-blogs","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sport-live-blogs","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-world-cup-2026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115668345107049449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}