{"id":808297,"date":"2026-07-17T17:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/808297\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T17:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:38:11","slug":"jesse-marsch-to-lead-canadian-u20s-for-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/808297\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Marsch to lead Canadian U20s for World Cup qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a class=\"gh-article-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tfcrepublic.ca\/tag\/canmnt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CanMNT<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Marsch will oversee a 21-player roster that includes Toronto FC prospects Richard Chukwu, Antone Bossenberry and Timothy Fortier. <\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tfcrepublic.ca\/author\/john-molinaro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FvUog8Oe_400x400.jpg\" alt=\"John Molinaro\"\/><br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/CDM0320.JPG-1.jpg\" alt=\"Jesse Marsch to lead Canadian U20s for World Cup qualifiers\"\/><br \/>\n            Jesse Marsch. (Photo courtesy of Canada Soccer)<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off leading the Canadian men\u2019s senior team at this summer\u2019s FIFA World Cup, coach Jesse Marsch will now turn his attention to Canada\u2019s under-20 side.<\/p>\n<p>Canada Soccer announced on Friday that Marsch will oversee the 21-man Canadian squad for the 2026 Concacaf U-20 Championship that runs from July 24 to Aug. 9 in Mexico. The tournament doubles as the qualifiers for both the 2027 FIFA U-20 World Cup and the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Marsch will lead a coaching staff that includes Mauro Biello, Andrew Olivieri and Andrea Di Pietrantonio. Olivieri serves as the men&#8217;s youth EXCEL director for Canada Soccer and has coached the U-20 team since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In bringing in Marsch to lead the U20s, Canada Soccer is looking to promote connectivity between the youth programs and senior team as it prepares for the qualifying cycle for the 2030 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>                This post is for paying subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#b00707\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CanMNT Marsch will oversee a 21-player roster that includes Toronto FC prospects Richard Chukwu, Antone Bossenberry and Timothy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-808297","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\/808297","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=808297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}