{"id":782118,"date":"2026-07-05T16:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782118\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:39:13","slug":"saskatoon-world-cup-watch-party-draws-thousands-for-canadas-historic-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782118\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatoon World Cup watch party draws thousands for Canada\u2019s historic game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\tBy \tAshley Beherns<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted July 5, 2026 11:26 am\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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There was a sea of red in Saskatoon for Canada\u2019s round of 16 World Cup matchup with Morocco.<\/p>\n

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The weather was beautiful for those attending the party, to support Canada making it further than they ever have in the tournament.<\/p>\n

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Fans were cheering hard, saying it\u2019s exciting to have everybody together as a community to watch the game.<\/p>\n

And there was even a bit of a rivalry with Moroccan fans waving their flags.<\/p>\n

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Even though Canada lost and is now eliminated from the World Cup Tournament, Canadian fans are still proud they have come this far and made history.<\/p>\n

Watch the video above for more on what people at the watch party were saying about the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ashley Beherns Global News Posted July 5, 2026 11:26 am 1 min read Descrease article font size…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,3274,44,82,13009,276809],"class_list":["post-782118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fifa","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-watch-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782118","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=782118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}