{"id":118525,"date":"2026-07-02T02:38:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/dzeko-becomes-oldest-player-in-a-wc-knockout-match-but-record-may-last-only-a-day\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T02:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:38:35","slug":"dzeko-becomes-oldest-player-in-a-wc-knockout-match-but-record-may-last-only-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/dzeko-becomes-oldest-player-in-a-wc-knockout-match-but-record-may-last-only-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u017eeko becomes oldest player in a WC knockout match, but record may last only a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bosnia&#8217;s Edin D\u017eeko made World Cup history as the oldest outfield player in a knockout match at 40. His landmark game ended prematurely due to injury, with the US leading 1-0 before a red card for their scorer Balogun. Despite the potential for his record to be broken soon, D\u017eeko&#8217;s achievement is cemented, as Bosnia now seeks an equalizer against a depleted US side.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bosnia&#8217;s Edin D\u017eeko made World Cup history as the oldest outfield player in a knockout match at 40. His landmark game ended prematurely due to injury, with the US leading 1-0 before a red card for their scorer Balogun. Despite the potential for his record to be broken soon, D\u017eeko&#8217;s achievement is cemented, as Bosnia&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/dzeko-becomes-oldest-player-in-a-wc-knockout-match-but-record-may-last-only-a-day\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">D\u017eeko becomes oldest player in a WC knockout match, but record may last only a day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":118526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}