{"id":484628,"date":"2026-02-19T05:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/484628\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T05:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:47:17","slug":"vancouver-whitecaps-open-concacaf-champions-cup-run-with-draw-vs-c-s-cartagines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/484628\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Whitecaps open CONCACAF Champions Cup run with draw vs. C.S. Cartagines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CARTAGO \u2014 The Vancouver Whitecaps kicked off their 2026 campaign with a 0-0 draw against Costa Rican side C.S. Cartagines in CONCACAF Champions Cup play on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The \u2018Caps were the dominant side for much of the match, controlling 76.5 per cent of the possession across the game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The visitors also outshot Cartagines 15-7 with a 5-0 edge in on-target shots, but Vancouver couldn\u2019t get a ball past goalkeeper Kevin Brice\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Whitecaps come into the tournament between the top teams in North America and Central America, looking to improve upon last year\u2019s performance, where they made the final but fell 5-0 to Liga MX giants Cruz Azul. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cartagines will visit Vancouver for the back half of the two-legged aggregate opening round series on Feb. 25. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Whitecaps will open their Major League Soccer season on Saturday when they host Real Salt Lake. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 18, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARTAGO \u2014 The Vancouver Whitecaps kicked off their 2026 campaign with a 0-0 draw against Costa Rican side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,82,55],"class_list":["post-484628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484628","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=484628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}