{"id":281567,"date":"2025-11-14T01:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281567\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:36:12","slug":"canadas-ali-ahmed-sent-off-in-6th-minute-vs-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281567\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Ali Ahmed sent off in 6th minute vs. Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada was reduced to 10 men just six minutes into Thursday\u2019s friendly against Ecuador when Ali Ahmed was shown a straight red card for what as deemed a dangerous challenge.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">6\u2019 &#8211; Straight red to Ali Ahmed \ud83d\udfe5<\/p>\n<p>Carton rouge pour Ali Ahmed \ud83d\udfe5<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 0-0 \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\udde8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CANMNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#CANMNT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CANMNT (@CANMNT_Official) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CANMNT_Official\/status\/1989135084558172517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ahmed caught Ecuador\u2019s Alan Franco with a high boot and was immediately sent off by referee Fernando Hern\u00e1ndez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 25-year-old was making his 23rd appearance for the Canadian Men\u2019s National team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada is playing the first of two international friendlies they have schedule during FIFA\u2019s November window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They will face Venezuela on Tuesday at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida as they continue their preparations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which they will co-host along with Mexico and the United States..<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada enters the contest as the 28th ranked team in FIFA\u2019s men\u2019s world ranking.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada was reduced to 10 men just six minutes into Thursday\u2019s friendly against Ecuador when Ali Ahmed was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-281567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}