{"id":779764,"date":"2026-07-04T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/779764\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:30:10","slug":"canada-to-play-morocco-in-canada-cup-matchup-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/779764\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada to play Morocco in Canada Cup matchup today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t    \t\t\t<img width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2025-03-04_09-44-58.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail_1920 size-thumbnail_1920 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>    \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"meta-info\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/ntv.ca\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ntv.ca\/category\/sports\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ntv.ca\/2026\/07\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tJuly 4th, 2026<br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canada\u2019s incredible run at the World Cup of Soccer is continuing with a big matchup today. The Canadians are through to the round of 16 after a dramatic 1-0 victory over South Africa in the round of 32.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canada now knows its opponent as Morocca scored late to tie the Netherlands last night, winning in a penalty shootout. Canada advanced out of Group B after finishing behind Switzerland. The Canadians opened the tournament with a 1-1 draw against Bosnia and Herzegovina, crushed Qatar 6-0, and then fell 2-1 to Switzerland before their knockout win over South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Morocco earned their place by upsetting the Netherlands in a dramatic penalty shootout Monday. Canada and Morocco go head to head on Saturday with the winner advancing to the World Cup quarterfinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News, Sports July 4th, 2026 Canada\u2019s incredible run at the World Cup of Soccer is continuing with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,561],"class_list":["post-779764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779764","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=779764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}