--- description: "I am approving an extra hour for an extended lunch today for every New York State employee" title: World Cup 2014 Footaball Soccer: New York Gets Longer Lunch for Game image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [World Cup](/tag/world-cup/) ## World Cup Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # New York's Governor Gave Everyone a Longer Lunch Break to Watch the Soccer Game by [Giri Nathan](/author/giri-nathan/) ## Giri Nathan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 26, 2014 5:16 PM CUT by [Giri Nathan](/author/giri-nathan/) ## Giri Nathan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 26, 2014 5:16 PM CUT Good news for all soccer fans employed by the Empire State: There’s no need to furtively peek at a livestream in the corner of your screen while pretending to “work.” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo [approved](http://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/default/files/documents/June%5F26%5Fletter.pdf "undefined") an extended lunch hour Thursday so that state employees could watch the [World Cup match](http://time.com/2921503/world-cup-germany-usa/ "undefined") between the U.S. and Germany. “The State of New York stands strongly behind Team USA,” he wrote in a public letter to U.S. Men’s National Team Coach Jurgen Klinsmann. “Therefore, I am approving an extra hour for an extended lunch today for every New York State employee, beginning at 12:00 PM, so they can root Team USA on to victory.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2928052/world-cup-2014-us-german-cuomo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2928052/world-cup-2014-us-german-cuomo/"},"headline":"New York's Governor Gave Everyone a Longer Lunch Break to Watch the Soccer Game","datePublished":"2014-06-26T17:16:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:39:16.044Z","description":"\"I am approving an extra hour for an extended lunch today for every New York State employee\"","url":"https://time.com/2928052/world-cup-2014-us-german-cuomo/","keywords":["World Cup"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Giri Nathan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/giri-nathan/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/world-cup/","name":"World Cup"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2928052/world-cup-2014-us-german-cuomo/","name":"New York's Governor Gave Everyone a Longer Lunch Break to Watch the Soccer Game"}}]}] ```