{"id":826224,"date":"2026-07-26T00:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826224\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:47:09","slug":"panama-meets-canada-in-u-20-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826224\/","title":{"rendered":"Panama meets Canada in U-20 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PUEBLA, Mexico \u2013 The 2026 Concacaf U-20 Championship continues with Panama taking on Canada on Sunday in Group C at Estadio Universitario BUAP in Puebla, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The match marks the third meeting between the nations in the tournament. Panama won both prior encounters, in the 2018 Group Stage and the 2024 Quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Los Canaleros are hoping to replicate their success from the 2015 edition when they finished as runners-up. The team qualified directly as one of the top-ranked nations in Concacaf U-20 Ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Canada will be making its 26th appearance in the Concacaf U-20 Championship in pursuit of a third regional title and first since 1996. The Reds qualified by winning Group F in the Qualifiers with a 3-1-0 record. Marsel Bibishkov and Owen Graham-Roache were standouts on offense, combining for ten goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUEBLA, Mexico \u2013 The 2026 Concacaf U-20 Championship continues with Panama taking on Canada on Sunday in Group&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-826224","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\/826224","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=826224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}