{"id":1081,"date":"2025-12-06T05:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2025-12-06T05:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:17:01","slug":"curacao-secureshistoric-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/curacao-secureshistoric-spot\/sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Curacao secureshistoric spot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/curacao1-edited.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/curacao1-edited.webp 1280w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/curacao1-edited-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/curacao1-edited-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/curacao1-edited-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Curacao became the smallest nation ever to qualify for the World Cup after drawing with Jamaica, ending their unbeaten 2026 qualifying campaign with seven wins in 10 matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coached by 78-year-old Dick Advocaat, the team features Dutch-born players with Curacaoan heritage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Caribbean Island, population 150,000, will debut at the expanded 48-team 2026 World Cup alongside debutants Cape Verde, Uzbekistan, and Jordan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curacao became the smallest nation ever to qualify for the World Cup after drawing with Jamaica, ending their unbeaten 2026 qualifying campaign with seven wins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}