{"id":732549,"date":"2026-06-12T18:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/732549\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:54:10","slug":"former-canadian-international-appearing-at-nanaimo-soccer-tryouts-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/732549\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Canadian international appearing at Nanaimo soccer tryouts | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c7a7a644-e094-4b98-84a2-a06614254990.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There will be 60 youth soccer players trying out for the Matchday Soccer School in Nanaimo. They&#8217;ll get to meet former Canadian international and current Pacific PC player Marco Bustos on June 12. (Image Credit: Matchday Performance Institute)<\/p>\n<p>By Dan Marshall<\/p>\n<p>Showing the Path Forward<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJun 12, 2026 | 9:46 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>NANAIMO \u2014 A former member of the Canadian men\u2019s soccer team is coming to the Harbour City to look over the next generation.<\/p>\n<p>Marco Bustos will be at tryouts for a local soccer academy on Friday, June 12, passing on some wisdom and meeting young soccer players trying out for Matchday Soccer School.<\/p>\n<p>Nanaimo United and VIU Mariners head coach and Matchday founder Kevin Lindo said Bustos is keen to share what he\u2019s learned throughout his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo give us some insight, we\u2019ve brought in Marco, who is a real standout player with Pacific FC in Victoria,\u201d Lindo said. \u201cMarco has trodden that path from CPL and MLS and the national team as well. He\u2019s very down to earth. He\u2019s a real character and a good person for people to connect with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will be 60 youth soccer players trying out for the Matchday Soccer School in Nanaimo. They&#8217;ll get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,561,82],"class_list":["post-732549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732549","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=732549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}