{"id":864498,"date":"2026-06-13T12:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/864498\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T12:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:25:18","slug":"2026-world-cup-schedule-scores-results-qatar-vs-switzerland-kicks-off-saturdays-play-as-group-stage-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/864498\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 World Cup schedule, scores, results: Qatar vs. Switzerland kicks off Saturday’s play as group stage continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 In the hours before Friday’s U.S. World Cup opener, at the team hotel, on the police-escorted bus and inside SoFi Stadium’s locker room, Mauricio Pochettino will dispense final instructions to a team he has molded for 19 months.<\/p>\n

As the minutes count down to kickoff against Paraguay, Pochettino will step into a moment worthy of a Hollywood film and have an opportunity to rally his players with a speech that invokes courage and patriotism while also touching their hearts.<\/p>\n

He could mirror the inspirational speech punctuating one of his favorite movies, “Miracle,” in which Kurt Russell, portraying coach Herb Brooks, rallied the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team.<\/p>\n

In those final moments, though, Pochettino says he will not say much.<\/p>\n

Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"IRVINE,<\/p>\n

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 11: Head Coach Mauricio Pochettino of the United States during practice on June 11, 2026 in Irvine, California. (Photo by John Dorton\/USSF\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

(John Dorton\/USSF via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 In the hours before Friday’s U.S. World Cup opener, at the team hotel, on the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":864499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[45],"tags":[88502,4740,4214,156,8884,59368,6673,6313,221,62,16997,352388,67,132,68,8885,293872],"class_list":["post-864498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-australia","tag-brazil","tag-france","tag-haiti","tag-morocco","tag-qatar","tag-scotland","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-switzerland","tag-the-atlas-lions","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-usmnt","tag-world-cups"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116742792611459291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864498","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=864498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}