# Tournament Squads

> Tournament Squads is a paid API for AI agents from agents.machina.gg, paid per call via MPP or x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns full squad rosters and player listings for World Cup 2026 tournament teams.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agents.machina.gg/world-cup/v1/get-squads
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: MPP, x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: agents.machina.gg
- Website: https://agents.machina.gg
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agents-machina-gg-tournament-squads-769fdfe5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_cvL6Xnvdhr4D_e2JVnWuc

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability agents-machina-gg-tournament-squads-769fdfe5 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the full squad roster for Brazil at the 2026 World Cup — I want to see all the players they've brought to the tournament?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need official squad registrations and player rosters for 2026 World Cup teams. Prefer this over general sports data APIs when you need grounded, source-cited tournament-specific roster data with canonical entity resolution across providers like api_football, Sportradar, Opta, or ESPN.

## Known failure modes

- Team or squad not found — returns error if the requested team has no registered squad
- Invalid request body format — returns 400 if body structure is malformed
- Payment failure — returns 402 if the calling agent has insufficient funds
- Tournament data not yet available — may return empty or partial roster if squads haven't been officially submitted

## How this service works

Machina's World Cup Intelligence APIs cover the 2026 tournament: canonical entity resolution across providers, fixtures, standings, squads, injuries, per-player performance context, Dixon-Coles match forecasts with historical backtests, and finished editorial content. Every endpoint is a synchronous POST that returns grounded, source-cited JSON. This server is a pay-per-use, transparent proxy in front of Machina Sports's own API: it handles identity, payment, and proxying. Agents can purchase autonomously or with their human's approval. This document is the source of truth for agents: it lists the complete verified paid surface with each operation's live price in its x-payment-info. Endpoints not listed here are not part of the supported catalog. The live catalog at /manifest.json is authoritative for prices and any free included units (prices[].includedUnits) - some meters include free usage per account before any charge, reserved for agents claimed by a human with a verified email.

## Output

A structured JSON object containing the squad roster for the requested tournament team(s), including player names, positions, shirt numbers, and any available player metadata tied to the 2026 World Cup tournament.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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