{"id":483181,"date":"2026-02-18T14:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483181\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:38:10","slug":"atletico-ottawa-fall-to-nashville-in-1st-international-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483181\/","title":{"rendered":"Atl\u00e9tico Ottawa fall to Nashville in 1st international match"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"TwoOttawa’s Joaquim Coulanges, left, battles with Nashville’s Jordan Knight during a Concacaf Champions Cup match in Hamilton, Ont., on Tuesday. (Michael Chisholm\/OneSoccer\/Concacaf)<\/p>\n

Nashville SC scored two second-half goals to beat Atl\u00e9tico Ottawa Tuesday in the region’s champions tournament.<\/p>\n

The Canadian Premier League (CPL) playoff champions made their international debut in the Concacaf Champions Cup against Major League Soccer’s Nashville side, winners of the U.S. Open Cup domestic tournament.<\/p>\n

Former CPLer Woobens Pacius scored in the 66th minute and Sam Surridge added a second in stoppage time for a 2-0 Nashville win. <\/p>\n

Nashville outshot Ottawa 18-5, with seven shots on target compared to Ottawa’s one.<\/p>\n

Atl\u00e9tico was left searching the country for a home stadium<\/a> when the turf at TD place was ripped up as part of Lansdowne 2.0 construction.<\/p>\n

The team ended up landing the Hamilton Stadium, home of rivals Forge FC, as a venue for its first ever international match. <\/p>\n

Major players depart<\/p>\n

Coming off the back of its first North Star Cup, Atl\u00e9tico has lost familiar firepower.<\/p>\n

The team earned its ticket into the champions cup when they defeated Cavalry FC 2-1 in a snowy-CPL final on Nov. 9<\/p>\n

The extra-time victory for Atl\u00e9tico featured a viral ‘icicle kick’ goal<\/a> from league MVP David Rodr\u00edguez, who also went on to score the match winner.<\/p>\n

WATCH | The highlight of Ottawa’s title win:\"\"<\/p>\n

#TheMoment an ‘icicle-kick’ helped win Canada’s premier league final <\/p>\n

Soccer player David Rodriguez tells The National about the moment he scored a bicycle kick in the snow, dubbed an icicle-kick, in Canada\u2019s Premier League final to tie the game and propel his team, Atl\u00e9tico Ottawa, to win the championship. <\/p>\n

Rodr\u00edguez, who was on loan from Mexican-based side Atl\u00e9tico de San Luis, has since departed from the club.<\/p>\n

The fan-adored midfielder has only played 12 of a possible 540 minutes since his return to Liga MX.<\/p>\n

Top goalkeeper award winner and all-time appearance leader Nathan Ingham did not re-sign for the club after 109 games between the sticks, but has since picked up the gloves at Cavalry FC. <\/p>\n

Former striker Sam Salter, who was also the league’s golden boot winner, was sold to Swedish side G\u00f6teborgs Atlet-och Idrottss\u00e4llskap (GAIS)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among the newcomers Tuesday night were starters Jonantan Villal from its central Mexican sister club and Haitian keeper Garissone Innocent.<\/p>\n

Atl\u00e9tico will turn its eyes to next Tuesday when the team travels to Nashville for the second and final leg of the total-goal round. The simplest way for them to advance would be by winning 3-0 or 3-1, since the first tiebreaker is away goals.<\/p>\n

The winner will play the iconic Lionel Messi and Inter Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-483181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483181","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=483181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}