{"id":781941,"date":"2026-07-05T14:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781941\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T14:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:33:21","slug":"switzerland-to-face-ghana-or-colombia-at-bc-place-in-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781941\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland to face Ghana or Colombia at BC Place in Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since 1938, Switzerland has won a match in the knockout round at the Men\u2019s World Cup \u2014 and they did it right here in Vancouver, after they beat Algeria 2-nil in the Round of 32.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of fans filled BC Place, and Swiss supporters are going home happy after their first knockout stage win in 88 years and the fact that they get to stay right here in Vancouver for their next match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPure ecstasy, pure joy, we\u2019re loving it,\u201d one elated fan told CityNews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s keep it going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at the ambience. What a game. Amazing night, what a special night,\u201d another shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSwitzerland played amazing, as we expected. So yeah, on to the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With that historic win for Switzerland, they\u2019re moving on to the Round of 16 to face off against either Ghana or Colombia right back here at BC Place on July 7 \u2014 which will be the final World Cup match hosted by Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SUI-ALG_05.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" ratio=\"16x9\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t(CityNews Image) <\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Vancouver as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=vancouver.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778189171_473_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since 1938, Switzerland has won a match in the knockout round at the Men\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-781941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781941","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=781941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}