{"id":735522,"date":"2026-06-14T04:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T04:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/735522\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T04:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T04:36:09","slug":"haiti-v-scotland-john-mcginn-beaming-with-pride-after-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/735522\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti v Scotland: John McGinn ‘beaming with pride’ after winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scotland’s John McGinn says his “scuffed” goal which downed Haiti in their World Cup opener left him “beaming with pride” – and he hopes kids around the country wake up feeling exactly the same way.<\/p>\n

The Aston Villa midfielder’s deflected effort in the first half gave Scotland their first World Cup win since 1990<\/a> at their first finals since 1998.<\/p>\n

They sit top of Group C as they aim to reach the knockout stages for the first time ever, despite a nervy second half during which Haiti threatened to equalise.<\/p>\n

“It wasn’t my best of goals but who cares? It’s been a long time coming,” McGinn told BBC Sport. “I scuffed it a wee bit. <\/p>\n

“Haiti are a decent team by the way. We had to work hard for it. Could we play a bit better? Aye. But it was a must-win game and we won. I’m absolutely over the moon.”<\/p>\n

Scotland still have to face Morocco and Brazil – two sides with the potential to go far at the World Cup – on Friday 19 June and Wednesday 24 June respectively.<\/p>\n

Steve Clarke and his side know they will need to improve, but McGinn says they will relish this victory on their return to football’s biggest stage.<\/p>\n

“We’ve been through a lot of hurt as a country,” he said. <\/p>\n

“A generation of supporters haven’t seen this. But the pride on my face this morning seeing all the kids going to the parks in a Scotland kit and painting their faces. <\/p>\n

“Hopefully when kids get up tomorrow they’ll be beaming with pride because I am. It sets things up for Friday [against Morocco].”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland’s John McGinn says his “scuffed” goal which downed Haiti in their World Cup opener left him “beaming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-735522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735522","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=735522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}