{"id":120603,"date":"2026-07-11T05:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T05:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/11\/mikel-merino-creates-fifa-world-cup-history-becomes-first-player-to\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T05:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T05:36:08","slug":"mikel-merino-creates-fifa-world-cup-history-becomes-first-player-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/11\/mikel-merino-creates-fifa-world-cup-history-becomes-first-player-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Merino creates FIFA World Cup history, becomes first player to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikel Merino scored another decisive late goal for Spain against Belgium. This victory propelled La Roja into the FIFA World Cup 2026 semifinals. Merino&#8217;s impactful substitute appearances have now made World Cup history. Spain will face France in their next crucial tournament match. The team&#8217;s unbeaten run in regular time now extends significantly.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikel Merino scored another decisive late goal for Spain against Belgium. This victory propelled La Roja into the FIFA World Cup 2026 semifinals. Merino&#8217;s impactful substitute appearances have now made World Cup history. Spain will face France in their next crucial tournament match. The team&#8217;s unbeaten run in regular time now extends significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":120604,"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\/120603"}],"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=120603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}