{"id":1273,"date":"2026-05-14T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2026-05-14T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:41:00","slug":"mbappe-dembele-head-up-france-squad-for-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1273","title":{"rendered":"Mbappe, Dembele head up France squad for 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kylian Mbappe will spearhead France at the World Cup after national team coach Didier Deschamps on Thursday announced his 26-man squad for this summer&#8217;s tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico. FRANCE 24&#8217;s Mark Owen speaks with sports journalist and broadcaster Thando Sibiya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kylian Mbappe will spearhead France at the World Cup after national team coach Didier Deschamps on Thursday announced his 26-man squad for this summer&#8217;s tournament in the United States, Canada &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1273\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","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\/1273","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=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}