Another Sedin is set to make a name for himself in sports, but rather than skates, he’ll be lacing up some cleats. <\/p>\n
Valter Sedin, son of Vancouver Canucks legend Henrik Sedin, has been selected to the Canadian men’s U-18 soccer roster for two friendly games taking place in early September, Canada Soccer announced Monday. <\/p>\n
The team will travel to Finland for games against the host country on Sept. 5 and against Switzerland on Sept. 7. <\/p>\n
Sedin currently plays as a midfielder for Swedish club Hammarby U19 in Stockholm. The club is partly owned by legendary Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic. <\/p>\n
He began his soccer career with the Vancouver Whitecaps FC Academy, joining the side in 2020 and progressing through the ranks before debuting with Whitecaps FC 2 in MLS Next Pro \u2014 the MLS’s developmental league \u2014 in June 2024. <\/p>\n
The 18-year-old transferred to Hammarby in February 2025 for an unreported fee.<\/p>\n
Born in Vancouver, Sedin has both Swedish and Canadian eligibility and could’ve represented either side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another Sedin is set to make a name for himself in sports, but rather than skates, he’ll be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-96321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96321","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=96321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}