{"id":14970,"date":"2025-01-15T08:38:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T16:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=14970"},"modified":"2025-01-15T09:17:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T17:17:45","slug":"city-of-yakima-designated-a-fan-zone-for-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/city-of-yakima-designated-a-fan-zone-for-world-cup-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Yakima Designated a Fan Zone for World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The City of Yakima is one of nine cities in Washington State named World Cup 2026 Fan Zone sites. The designation was announced during a news conference in Seattle on Tuesday, January 14th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYakima is excited to be a SeattleFWC26 fan zone location for the FIFA World Cup 2026! We\u2019re proud of Yakima\u2019s long and rich sports history,” said Yakima Mayor Patricia Byers. “Being a fan zone location will build on that legacy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SeattleFWC26 is the organizing committee for Seattle\u2019s participation as one of 16 host
cities selected for the FIFA World Cup in 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click the following for the SeattleFWC26 news release about Fan Zone sites –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1_14 fan zone release FINAL<\/strong><\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\"\"<\/a>
Yakima Mayor Patricia Byers (on far left) attends a news conference in Seattle on Jan. 14th<\/sup> announcing Yakima and eight other cities in Washington State as World Cup 2026 Fan Zone sites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a>
Yakima Mayor Patricia Byers is interviewed by Seattle media following a news conference on January 14th<\/sup> during which Yakima and eight other cities in Washington State were announced as World Cup 2026 Fan Zone sites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a>
Yakima Mayor Patricia Byers speaks during a news conference in Seattle on January 14th<\/sup> during which Yakima and eight other cities in Washington State were announced as World Cup 2026 Fan Zone sites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The City of Yakima is one of nine cities in Washington State named World Cup 2026 Fan Zone sites. The designation was announced during a news conference in Seattle on Tuesday, January 14th. \u201cYakima is excited to be a SeattleFWC26 fan zone location for the FIFA World Cup 2026! We\u2019re proud of Yakima\u2019s long and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14970"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14990,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970\/revisions\/14990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}