{"id":49849,"date":"2026-06-20T08:35:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=49849"},"modified":"2026-06-20T08:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:50:34","slug":"brazil-secure-first-win-of-fifa-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/brazil-secure-first-win-of-fifa-world-cup-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil secure first win of FIFA World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><b>Kathmandu, June 20:<\/b>\u00a0Brazil registered their first victory of the FIFA World Cup 2026 with a comfortable 3-0 win over Haiti on Saturday, boosting their chances of reaching the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p>At Philadelphia Stadium, Matheus Cunha starred for the five-time world champions with a brace, while Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior also got on the scoresheet as Brazil dominated the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil opened the scoring in the 23rd minute when Cunha found the back of the net to give his side an early lead. The striker doubled Brazil&#8217;s advantage in the 36th minute, finishing off a well-worked move after being set up by Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior.<\/p>\n<p>The Sele\u00e7\u00e3o extended their lead further in first-half stoppage time when Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior converted a pass from Lucas Paquet\u00e1, ensuring Brazil went into the break with a commanding 3-0 advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Neither side was able to add to the score in the second half as Brazil comfortably saw out the match to claim all three points.<\/p>\n<p>The victory moves Brazil to the top of Group C with four points from two matches, while Haiti remain bottom of the standings without a point from their opening two games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, June 20:\u00a0Brazil registered their first victory of the FIFA World Cup 2026 with a comfortable 3-0 win over Haiti on Saturday, boosting their chances of reaching the knockout stage. At Philadelphia Stadium, Matheus Cunha starred for the five-time world champions with a brace, while Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior also got on the scoresheet as Brazil dominated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-49849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-fifa-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49852,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49849\/revisions\/49852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}