{"id":328917,"date":"2025-12-06T18:40:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T18:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/328917\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T18:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T18:40:39","slug":"vancouver-whitecaps-take-on-inter-miami-in-mls-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/328917\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Whitecaps take on Inter Miami in MLS Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to live coverage of this year\u2019s MLS Cup final<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765046439_271_default.jpg\"  alt=\"\" class=\"thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"video-item-title\">Vancouver hopes Whitecaps Cinderella season ends with MLS Cup win<\/p>\n<p class=\"videoCaption-vZUyi\">Thomas M\u00fcller and the Vancouver Whitecaps are set to battle Lionel Messi\u2019s Inter Miami this weekend for MLS\u2019s top trophy. The final is being billed as a battle of the league\u2019s two top stars, but at the start of the season few expected the Whitecaps to contend for the Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s championship match between the Vancouver Whitecaps and Inter Miami kicks off at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., at 2:30 p.m. ET, which is 11:30 a.m. PT for Caps fans back home.<\/p>\n<p>This is Vancouver\u2019s first MLS final, and the first time a Canadian team has played for the cup since 2019, when Toronto FC lost to the Seattle Sounders.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s match will also renew the rivalry between veteran players Lionel Messi and Thomas M\u00fcller, who haven\u2019t come face to face in the MLS since the German World Cup champion joined the Whitecaps earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have live coverage of the match on this page, with reporters at Chase Stadium and B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to live coverage of this year\u2019s MLS Cup final Vancouver hopes Whitecaps Cinderella season ends with MLS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-328917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328917","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=328917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}