{"id":769908,"date":"2026-06-30T12:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/769908\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:57:09","slug":"nba-mvp-comments-on-stephen-eustaquio-post-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/769908\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA MVP comments on Stephen Eust\u00e1quio post: \u201cGOAT\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Eust\u00e1quio, an FC <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/porto-13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Porto<\/a> midfielder, secured Canada\u2019s place in the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/fifa-world-cup-12\/fixtures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a> round of 32 by scoring the winning goal in a 1-0 victory over South Africa. The moment experienced by the Canada international did not go unnoticed by several figures in world sport, including the NBA MVP.<\/p>\n<p>His compatriot Shai Gilgeous-Alexander commented on the post by the player on loan at Los Angeles FC with a goat emoji, in reference to GOAT, the English acronym for \u201cGreatest of All Time\u201d. Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.FC%20Porto.ws\/forum\/threads\/s%C3%A9rgio-concei%C3%A7%C3%A3o-ex-treinador.19833\/latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">S\u00e9rgio Concei\u00e7\u00e3o<\/a> also reacted. \u201cVery well deserved. I always knew that your ambition and hard work would take you far. A hero for Canada. A hug,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Eust\u00e1quio, an FC Porto midfielder, secured Canada\u2019s place in the 2026 World Cup round of 32 by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-769908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}