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WASHINGTON, D.C.<\/strong> \u2013 New York Yankees superstar Aaron Judge<\/strong> will be one of the prominent figures participating this Friday in the Final Draw of the FIFA World Cup 2026<\/strong>, an event that will reveal the tournament groups which, for the first time, will feature 48 national teams<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\nYou may be interested in:\n\nThe draw will take place at 12:00 p.m. ET<\/strong> in the American capital and will have as its main host football legend Rio Ferdinand<\/strong>, former captain of the English national team. Judge will be one of the four assistants in charge of supporting the development of the draw.\n\n\n “I follow soccer closely, so being part of the World Cup draw is incredibly special. With the final scheduled for New York\/New Jersey \u2014right where I play\u2014 I can’t wait to see which teams will fight for the title in our own backyard”<\/em>, Judge said in a FIFA statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 New York Yankees superstar Aaron Judge will be one of the prominent figures participating this Friday in the Final Draw of the FIFA World Cup 2026, an event that will reveal the tournament groups which, for the first time, will feature 48 national teams. You may be interested in: The draw will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":493429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,40813,13766,40853],"class_list":["post-493428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-major-leagues","tag-mlb","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24mw","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/images-6.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/images-6.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Alongside icons of world sport<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nJudge will share the stage with three historical figures from different disciplines:\n\n\n
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A special quote for Judge<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nThe Yankees captain expressed his enthusiasm for participating in the global event:\n\n\n
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A historic World Cup<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nThe 2026 World Cup will be jointly organized by the United States, Canada, and Mexico<\/strong>, being the first in history with 48 teams distributed in 12 groups of four national teams<\/strong> each.\n\nThe grand final<\/strong> will take place on July 19, 2026<\/strong> at MetLife Stadium<\/strong>, located in East Rutherford, New Jersey, a few kilometers from Yankee Stadium.\n\n\n
An International Year for Judge<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nAaron Judge’s participation in global sporting events will continue months later, when he assumes the role of team captain for the United States team in the 2026 World Baseball Classic<\/strong>, the most important international tournament in his discipline.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"