{"id":937284,"date":"2026-07-15T20:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/937284\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:27:19","slug":"world-cup-2026-semifinals-live-updates-england-leads-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/937284\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026 semifinals live updates: England leads Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While every <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/world-cup-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a> introduces viewers to new young stars, this tournament featured eight players who were older than 40 \u2014 one more than the number of over-40 players in the previous 22 World Cups combined.<\/p>\n<p>Among them were Portugal\u2019s Cristiano Ronaldo, 41, and Mexico\u2019s Memo Ochoa, 40, who were playing in their sixth World Cups alongside Argentina\u2019s Lionel Messi, a relative youngster at 39. No one has played in more men\u2019s World Cups.<\/p>\n<p>But while Ronaldo and Ochoa have gone home, Messi will be playing in his third semifinal in four tournaments Wednesday when Argentina, the reigning champion, faces England at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While every World Cup introduces viewers to new young stars, this tournament featured eight players who were older&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":937285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[2841,1582,276,357473,2385,6026,2961,224,2444,5337,171514,50,72266,16495,76905,637,20812,15613,21490],"class_list":["post-937284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-argentina","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-daily-recap","tag-day","tag-england","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-memorable-moment","tag-news","tag-plenty","tag-schedule","tag-semifinal","tag-times","tag-update","tag-wednesday","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116925883517065555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937284","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=937284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}