{"id":785789,"date":"2026-07-07T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785789\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:55:10","slug":"switzerland-takes-on-colombia-in-vancouvers-last-hurrah-at-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785789\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland takes on Colombia in Vancouver\u2019s last hurrah at World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783418110_10_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Switzerland fans march toward B.C. Place before a World Cup Group B soccer match against Canada, in Vancouver, on Wednesday, June 24, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Timothy Matwey<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 7, 2026 | 1:00 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 Vancouver is set to host its seventh and final World Cup match today, in a final hurrah at BC Place for an event that galvanized the city\u2019s diaspora communities and drew thousands of fans from across the country and the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The round-of-16 match between Switzerland and Colombia comes less than four weeks since the city got its first taste of the world\u2019s biggest sporting event, when Australia fans swamped the downtown core for a match against Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the city has been swept up in World Cup euphoria, with Canada fans staging two huge marches to the stadium and crowds flooding Granville Street on game days.<\/p>\n<p>The FIFA Fan Festival in East Vancouver also emerged as one of the best places in Canada to watch the action outside a stadium, heaving with the energy of fans who have turned the PNE amphitheatre into a mosh pit for big games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Switzerland fans march toward B.C. Place before a World Cup Group B soccer match against Canada, in Vancouver,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-785789","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\/785789","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=785789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}