{"id":662505,"date":"2026-05-11T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662505\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:41:10","slug":"bosnia-and-herzegovina-become-canadas-first-opponent-to-announce-fifa-world-cup-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662505\/","title":{"rendered":"Bosnia and Herzegovina become Canada\u2019s first opponent to announce FIFA World Cup squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada now knows exactly who they will be taking on when they open up their FIFA World Cup on June 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Their opponents, Bosnia and Herzegovina, became among the first of the 48 teams competed at next month\u2019s tournament to unveil their 26-man squad on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Leading the way is talisman Edin Dzeko. The 40-year-old striker helped Schalke earn promotion to the Bundesliga this past season, scoring six league goals in 10 appearances since arriving from Fiorentina in January. He will now play in a second World Cup after previously appearing at Brazil 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Competing alongside Canada and Bosnia and Herzegovina in Group B will be Switzerland and Qatar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Bosnia and Herzegovina squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">GK &#8211; Nikola Vasilj (St. Pauli), Martin Zlomislic (Rijeka) and Osman Hadzikic (Slaven Belupo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DF &#8211; Sead Kolasinac (Atalanta), Dennis Hadzikadunic (Sampdoria), Amar Dedic (Benfica), Nikola Katic (Schalke), Tarik Muharemovic (Sassuolo), Nihad Mujakic (Gaziantep), Stjepan Radeljic (Rijeka) and Nidal Celik (Lens)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MF &#8211; Amir Hadziahmetovic (Hull City), Benjamin Tahirovic (Brondby), Dzenis Burnic (Karlsruher), Armin Gigovic (Young Boys), Ivan Basic (Astana), Esmir Bajraktarevic (PSV), Amar Memic (Viktoria Plzen), Ivan Sunjic (Pafos), Kerim Alajbegovic (RB Salzburg) and Ermin Mahmic (Sloven Liberec)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FW &#8211; Edin Dzeko (Schalke), Ermedin Demirovic (Stuttgart), Samed Bazdar (Jagiellonia Bialystok), Haris Tabakovic (Borussia Monchengladbach) and Jovo Lukic (Cluj)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada now knows exactly who they will be taking on when they open up their FIFA World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[712,244838,49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-662505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-apple-news","tag-bosnia-herzegovina-sports-soccer-team-team-statscom-7661","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662505","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=662505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}