{"id":770416,"date":"2026-06-30T05:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770416\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T05:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:37:10","slug":"canada-to-face-morocco-in-round-of-16-at-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770416\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada to face Morocco in Round of 16 at FIFA World Cup"},"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>Canada will face Morocco in the Round of 16 at the World Cup after the North African giants defeated the Netherlands 3-2 in penalty kicks on Monday in Guadalupe, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The Round of 32 match went to penalty kicks after the teams were tied 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Cody Gakpo gave the Netherlands a 1-0 lead in the 73rd minute, but Issa Diop tied the match one minute into second-half stoppage time. After two scoreless 15-minute halves, the match was decided in penalty kicks.<\/p>\n<p>It will mark the second straight World Cup featuring a showdown between Canada and Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlas Lions, who entered the tournament ranked seventh in the world, defeated Canada 2-1 in their final group-stage game at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar before making a run to the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>No. 30 Canada advanced to the Round of 16 with a 1-0 win over South Africa on Sunday in Los Angeles. It was Canada&#8217;s first ever appearance in a World Cup knockout game. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Two soccer players watch a soccer ball that goes wide of the net\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782797830_682_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7669021190716447\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Netherlands&#8217; Justin Kluivert misses a penalty during the penalty shootout. (Eloisa Sanchez\/Reuters)<\/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":770417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-770416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770416","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=770416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}