{"id":276354,"date":"2025-08-27T18:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/276354\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T18:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:29:13","slug":"k-c-royals-see-local-fifa-world-cup-matches-as-chance-to-create-new-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/276354\/","title":{"rendered":"K.C. Royals see local FIFA World Cup matches as chance to create new fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The Royals\u2019 2026 home schedule on multiple occasions overlaps with the FIFA World Cup games scheduled for Arrowhead Stadium, and the team sees this \u201cas an opportunity\u201d to draw new fans to Kauffman Stadium, according to Pete Grathoff of the K.C. STAR. Fans from \u201caround the world are expected to descend\u201d on K.C. next summer, as the city will host six matches over a 26-day span. Some of those visitors \u201cmay have never seen\u201d a baseball game, while others \u201cmay have baseball in their nation and will want to see a game.\u201d The Royals play nine home games while the World Cup is taking place in K.C., though they do not have any scheduled \u201cfor the same day as a World Cup match\u201d in town (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\/article311841898.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\/article311841898.html\">K.C. STAR, 8\/26<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royals\u2019 2026 home schedule on multiple occasions overlaps with the FIFA World Cup games scheduled for Arrowhead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,28678,38307,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-276354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-fifa","10":"tag-international-soccer","11":"tag-kansas","12":"tag-kansas-city","13":"tag-kansas-city-royals","14":"tag-kansascity","15":"tag-kansascityroyals","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115102152700577592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}