{"id":749556,"date":"2026-06-20T13:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/749556\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T13:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:35:13","slug":"germany-ivory-coast-get-ready-for-torontos-3rd-fifa-world-cup-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/749556\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany, Ivory Coast get ready for Toronto&#8217;s 3rd FIFA World Cup match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of\u00a0Germany\u00a0and Ivory Coast soccer fans are gathering in Toronto as the FIFA World Cup matchup between the two nations&#8217; teams is set to take place in the city this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u00a0supporters are expected to march by Toronto&#8217;s waterfront to the temporarily rebranded BMO Field in a soccer tradition before major international games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many Ivory Coast supporters are also expected to fill Toronto Stadium, wearing their team&#8217;s orange jerseys.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ivory Coast players arrived in Toronto with striker Elye Wahi after the 23-year-old was cleared to enter Canada, a boost for the team.<\/p>\n<p>There had been uncertainty over his availability for today&#8217;s match because he is under investigation in France for alleged betting-related offences.<\/p>\n<p>The Ivorians opened the tournament with a 1-0 win over Ecuador, while\u00a0Germany\u00a0routed Cura\u00e7ao 7-1 in its first match.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-749556","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\/749556","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=749556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}