{"id":1500,"date":"2025-08-27T17:10:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2025-08-27T17:10:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:10:38","slug":"brazil-to-face-south-korea-and-japan-in-world-cup-build-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/brazil-to-face-south-korea-and-japan-in-world-cup-build-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil to face South Korea and Japan in World Cup build-up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-36.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-36.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-36-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-36-768x511.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Brazil will play October friendlies in South Korea and Japan as all three teams step up their preparations for the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coached by the Italian Carlo Ancelotti, Brazil will be one of the favourites to win the tournament next year in the United States, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They will face a South Korea side captained by Son Heung-min at the 66,000-capacity Seoul World Cup Stadium on October 10th, the Korea Football Association said late Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Brazilians last visited South Korea for a friendly in June 2022, ahead of the Qatar World Cup, and thrashed the hosts 5-1 with Neymar scoring twice from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ancelotti&#8217;s men will then play Japan at Tokyo Stadium, which has a capacity of just under 50,000, on October 14th, the Japanese FA said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neymar again scored from the spot as Brazil won 1-0 in the Japanese capital in June 2022. The 33-year-old Neymar has not worn the Brazil jersey for nearly two years because of repeated injuries and did not make Ancelotti&#8217;s latest squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil will play October friendlies in South Korea and  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}