{"id":1269,"date":"2026-05-14T20:40:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2026-05-14T20:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:40:59","slug":"mbappe-heads-up-france-squad-in-deschamps-final-world-cup-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"Mbapp\u00e9 heads up France squad in Deschamps&#8217; final World Cup bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 will lead France\u2019s bid for World Cup glory after coach Didier Deschamps named a largely unchanged 26-man squad Thursday for this summer\u2019s tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Mbapp\u00e9, recovering from a thigh injury suffered during Real Madrid\u2019s title run-in, is still expected to captain the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 will lead France\u2019s bid for World Cup glory after coach Didier Deschamps named a largely unchanged 26-man squad Thursday for this summer\u2019s tournament in the United States, Canada &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1269\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}