{"id":375,"date":"2026-08-05T14:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/?p=375"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:49:17","slug":"consultancy-fifa-world-cup-2026-heat-preparation-with-english-professional-football-referee-michael-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/2026\/08\/05\/consultancy-fifa-world-cup-2026-heat-preparation-with-english-professional-football-referee-michael-oliver\/","title":{"rendered":"Consultancy: FIFA World Cup 2026 heat preparation with English professional football referee Michael Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-14.32.18-1024x303.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-14.32.18-1024x303.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-14.32.18-300x89.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-14.32.18-768x228.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-14.32.18.png 1198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael returned to the environmental chamber again this year after a successful heat preparation last season prior to the Club World Cup, to prepare for the 2026 FIFA World Cup held across Canada, Mexico and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"914\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-14.31.50.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-378\" style=\"width:418px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-14.31.50.png 914w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-14.31.50-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-14.31.50-768x373.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/consultancy-fifa-world-cup-2026-heat-preparation-with-english-professional-football-referee-michael-oliver\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/consultancy-fifa-world-cup-2026-heat-preparation-with-english-professional-football-referee-michael-oliver\/\">Read more about the heat work with some interesting data from the France v Norway game and a Q&amp;A with Michael&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael returned to the environmental chamber again this year after a successful heat preparation last season prior to the Club World Cup, to prepare for the 2026 FIFA World Cup held across Canada, Mexico and the United States. Read more about the heat work with some interesting data from the France v Norway game and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/2026\/08\/05\/consultancy-fifa-world-cup-2026-heat-preparation-with-english-professional-football-referee-michael-oliver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Consultancy: FIFA World Cup 2026 heat preparation with English professional football referee Michael Oliver&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consultancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}