{"id":841513,"date":"2026-08-02T02:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T02:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841513\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T02:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T02:04:27","slug":"valter-sedin-scores-first-goal-for-canada-in-big-draw-at-concacaf-u20-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841513\/","title":{"rendered":"Valter Sedin scores first goal for Canada in big draw at Concacaf U20 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valter Sedin picked a great time to score his first competitive goal for Canada in international soccer.<\/p>\n<p>Sedin dribbled through a few Jamaican defenders before shooting for a goal on a deflection early in the second half to tie the game at 1-1 at the Concacaf under-20 championship on Saturday in Puebla, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Canada went on to notch a 2-2 tie, clinching first place in Group C by finishing with one win and two draws.<\/p>\n<p>The result sets up a quarterfinal rematch between the two squads on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The four quarterfinal winners secure berths in the 2027 FIFA U-20 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the tournament qualifies for the 2028 Olympics and the 2027 Pan American Games.<\/p>\n<p>Sedin is the son of Vancouver Canucks legend Henrik Sedin.<\/p>\n<p>He developed his skills in the Vancouver Whitecaps system before joining Swedish club Hammarby last year.<\/p>\n<p>Marius Aiyenero scored the other goal for Canada on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valter Sedin picked a great time to score his first competitive goal for Canada in international soccer. Sedin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-841513","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\/841513","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=841513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}