{"id":745803,"date":"2026-06-18T21:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/745803\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:16:12","slug":"world-cup-fans-in-vancouver-get-ready-to-paint-the-town-red-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/745803\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup fans in Vancouver get ready to paint the town red | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781817372_996_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Voyageurs parade toward Toronto Stadium ahead of Canada&#8217;s World Cup match against Bosnia and Herzegovina in Toronto, on Friday, June 12, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jon Blacker<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJun 18, 2026 | 1:00 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 Vancouver is counting down to its first home-team match of the 2026 World Cup, as fans prepare to give Team Canada a boost against Qatar at BC Place Stadium and at watch parties around the country.<\/p>\n<p>There was a long queue at the official FIFA Fan Festival in East Vancouver, where total tournament attendance is set to surge past the 100,000 mark today.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say more than 98,000 fans have attended so far, with highest attendance of 31,481 on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>A staging area for police at the southern foot of Cambie Bridge is a hive of activity, while on and off ramps for the bridge that is the closest downtown crossing to the stadium are already shut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Voyageurs parade toward Toronto Stadium ahead of Canada&#8217;s World Cup match against Bosnia and Herzegovina in Toronto,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,55],"class_list":["post-745803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","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-sports","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745803","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=745803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}