{"id":14456,"date":"2026-03-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/17\/86-days-to-the-world-cup-why-going-undefeated-doesnt-guarantee-a-knockout-round-appearance-yahoo-sports\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:00:00","slug":"86-days-to-the-world-cup-why-going-undefeated-doesnt-guarantee-a-knockout-round-appearance-yahoo-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/17\/86-days-to-the-world-cup-why-going-undefeated-doesnt-guarantee-a-knockout-round-appearance-yahoo-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"86 days to the World Cup: Why going undefeated doesn&#8217;t guarantee a knockout-round appearance &#8211; Yahoo Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi3gFBVV95cUxNZnprWFVVeENySHgtZUhRa3ZUR0pWM3IwbEREWHNuUHdRd2E5NndjYmV5UzF5c2NUSTlDMHJ3RzBLbGNCSmdHR0hsTlRiMTc5WDZEU0JobVd3bUZDcXJtLXVfZjlTUmVEMGVNMV9Hc2E5YXN4a2NEVE56cGJoVUVDWXllblp2bW42cl83anE2a1hYQ1Rpa24xMXZUVjFCYjhUbGs1cHhpUm5JbHR4ak5QUmw1WjNuLVZ2WkxsMTNxZ1dwY3FRV2tJRWh3ZTlRenVWaXlUWV90a0xzUmVBVGc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">86 days to the World Cup: Why going undefeated doesn&#8217;t guarantee a knockout-round appearance<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Yahoo Sports<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>86 days to the World Cup: Why going undefeated doesn&#8217;t guarantee a knockout-round appearance&nbsp;&nbsp;Yahoo Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}