{"id":2564,"date":"2026-06-18T10:33:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:33:31","slug":"scotland-returns-to-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/?p=2564","title":{"rendered":"Scotland Returns to the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Scotland is back in the World Cup after a 28 year absence!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The last time Team Scotland was in the World Cup was in 1998. From 1974 to 1990, the team was in five consecutive World Cups. This time Coach Steve Clarke will lead the 26 man team. In order to qualify for the Cup, Scotland drew with Denmark, beat Belarus twice and beat Greece once.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">In their first game, they beat Team Haiti 1-0 while playing in Boston. Their next game will be playing Morocco Friday, June 19th at 11pm in Boston.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Then, a big game against Brazil on June 24th in Miami Gardens at 11pm.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">We&#8217;re so excited for Team Scotland&#8217;s big return to the World Cup!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2565 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/44d70eb0-c522-11f0-ba4c-a176bf1fb76f-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"241\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland is back in the World Cup after a 28 year absence!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[909,1093,37,725,921],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2567,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/2567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}