{"id":19471,"date":"2025-07-14T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/?p=19471"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T17:16:43","slug":"world-club-cup-with-italy-and-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/world-club-cup-with-italy-and-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"World (Club) Cup with Italy and UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had ties to both teams vying for points at the inaugural World Club Cup match in Washington, DC. The Al Ain FC hailed from our former home emirate in the UAE, while Juventus is the local team where three of our births are registered. It wasn&#8217;t a particularly close match, but it was a lot of fun to celebrate the <a href=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/auto-draft\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/auto-draft\/\">end of school<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1875\" data-id=\"19475\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1-WCC-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19475\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Up late and loving it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1875\" data-id=\"19476\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-WCC.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19476\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-WCC.jpg 2500w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-WCC-1200x900.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-WCC-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-WCC-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-WCC-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/5-WCC-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gotta have the swag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1875\" data-id=\"19474\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-WCC.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19474\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-WCC.jpg 2500w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-WCC-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ready for kick off<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1875\" height=\"2500\" data-id=\"19477\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-WCC-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19477\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-WCC-rotated.jpg 1875w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-WCC-900x1200.jpg 900w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-WCC-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-WCC-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-WCC-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-WCC-630x840.jpg 630w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-WCC-960x1280.jpg 960w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-WCC-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1875px) 100vw, 1875px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Juventus scores first (and four other times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1406\" data-id=\"19473\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6-WCC.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19473\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6-WCC.jpg 2500w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6-WCC-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Free kick action<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1875\" data-id=\"19472\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/4-WCC.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19472\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/4-WCC.jpg 2500w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/4-WCC-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A fun night!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had ties to both teams vying for points at the inaugural World Club Cup match in Washington, DC. The Al Ain FC hailed from our former home emirate in the UAE, while Juventus is the local team where three of our births are registered. It wasn&#8217;t a particularly close match, but it was a&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/world-club-cup-with-italy-and-uae\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[57,43],"class_list":["post-19471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-picture","tag-family-outings","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19486,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19471\/revisions\/19486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}