{"id":870326,"date":"2026-08-25T01:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T01:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870326\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T01:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T01:12:09","slug":"report-canadas-saliba-joining-countrymen-buchanan-and-oluwaseyi-on-laligas-villarreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870326\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Canada\u2019s Saliba joining countrymen Buchanan and Oluwaseyi on LaLiga\u2019s Villarreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Villarreal\u2019s Canadian contingent is adding another player as the LaLiga club is reportedly signing midfielder Nathan Saliba, according to soccer reporter Fabrizio Romano.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 22-year-old joins Tajon Buchanan and Tani Oluwaseyi on Villarreal after all three represented Canada at the FIFA World Cup earlier this summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Saliba has played his club football with Anderlecht of the Belgian Pro League since June 2025, scoring five goals over 50 total appearances. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Longueuil, Que., Saliba has scored three goals over 18 games for Canada\u2019s men\u2019s national team, including a goal at Vancouver\u2019s BC Place during Canada\u2019s 6-0 rout of Qatar in group stage play at the FIFA World Cup in June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Saliba spent three seasons with CF Montreal in the MLS before heading to Europe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Villarreal has drawn both of their games against Atletico Madrid and Racing Santander so far in the young LaLiga season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Villarreal\u2019s Canadian contingent is adding another player as the LaLiga club is reportedly signing midfielder Nathan Saliba, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[712,49,48,561,82,201059],"class_list":["post-870326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-villarreal-sports-soccer-team-team-statscom-6170"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870326","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=870326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}