{"id":153466,"date":"2026-06-24T21:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153466"},"modified":"2026-06-24T21:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:13:08","slug":"with-no-team-in-world-cup-china-fans-root-for-ronaldo-messi-and-a-refereeunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153466","title":{"rendered":"With no team in World Cup, China fans root for Ronaldo, Messi &#8230; and a refereeUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostOn a sunny day in Brooklyn\u2019s Dumbo neighbourhood, punters piled into the fifth floor of Time Out Market to Portugal House \u2013 part food court, part bar, full-blown World Cup party.<br \/>\nThe room was awash with Portuguese team jerseys, filled with fans sipping cold beer and soft drinks, proudly singing Portugal\u2019s national anthem before their match against DR Congo.<br \/>\n\u201cHopefully, one day I can sing the Chinese national song in a World Cup stadium,\u201d said Zhai Yibo, a 20-year-old Chinese student studying in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3358257\/no-team-world-cup-china-fans-root-ronaldo-messi-and-referee?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostOn a sunny day in Brooklyn\u2019s Dumbo neighbourhood, punters piled into the fifth floor of Time Out Market to Portugal House&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153466"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}