{"id":289547,"date":"2025-11-17T20:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289547\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T20:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:07:07","slug":"canada-manager-jesse-marsch-confirms-middlesbrough-defender-alfie-jones-will-start-against-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289547\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada manager Jesse Marsch confirms Middlesbrough defender Alfie Jones will start against Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alfie Jones will make his Canada debut on Tuesday, Jesse Marsch confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The CanMNT manager said that the Middlesbrough defender was taking his citizenship oath on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI want to acknowledge a lot of people inside our organization, as well as the Canadian government, who helped us push this through in a respectful way, but in a way that showed urgency and importance for Alfie and for our team and for our preparation for the World Cup\u201d Marsch said ahead of Tuesday\u2019s match with Venezuela in Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jones, 28, is eligible to play for Canada through a grandparent. The Bristol, England-born centre-back is in his first season at the Riverside. He has one goal in 14 appearances for Boro this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada is coming off of a scoreless draw with Ecuador in Toronto on Thursday. The team played with 10 men for a majority of the match after a straight red to Ali Ahmed in the sixth minute. The match in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday is Canada\u2019s final game of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alfie Jones will make his Canada debut on Tuesday, Jesse Marsch confirmed. The CanMNT manager said that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-289547","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\/289547","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=289547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}