{"id":51059,"date":"2026-07-11T08:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=51059"},"modified":"2026-07-11T08:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:21:11","slug":"spain-beat-belgium-to-reach-fifa-world-cup-2026-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/spain-beat-belgium-to-reach-fifa-world-cup-2026-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain beat Belgium to reach FIFA World Cup 2026 Semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><b>Kathmandu, July 11:<\/b>\u00a0Spain booked their place in the FIFA World Cup 2026 semi-finals with a dramatic 2-1 victory over Belgium in the quarter-final at Los Angeles Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Spain took the lead in the 30th minute when Fabi\u00e1n Ruiz found the back of the net with a well-taken finish. Belgium responded before the break, as Charles De Ketelaere scored in the 41st minute to level the match at 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>With extra time looming, Mikel Merino emerged as Spain&#8217;s hero, netting the decisive goal in the 88th minute to seal a hard-fought victory and send La Roja into the last four.<\/p>\n<p>Spain will now face France in a blockbuster semi-final clash as they continue their quest for the FIFA World Cup 2026 title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, July 11:\u00a0Spain booked their place in the FIFA World Cup 2026 semi-finals with a dramatic 2-1 victory over Belgium in the quarter-final at Los Angeles Stadium on Saturday. Spain took the lead in the 30th minute when Fabi\u00e1n Ruiz found the back of the net with a well-taken finish. Belgium responded before the break, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51059"}],"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=51059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51062,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51059\/revisions\/51062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}