{"id":9837,"date":"2025-07-20T06:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9837\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T06:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:07:08","slug":"ian-pilchers-late-goal-helps-san-diego-tie-whitecaps-1-1-remain-atop-western-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9837\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Pilcher\u2019s late goal helps San Diego tie Whitecaps 1-1, remain atop Western Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/687c7a77023d1607fd6ff6c6jpeg.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 19, 2025 | 11:11 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Ian Pilcher scored his first Major League Soccer goal for San Diego FC in a 1-1 tie with the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday night in a matchup of the top two teams in the Western Conference. <\/p>\n<p>San Diego (13-7-4) leads the conference with 43 points and the Whitecaps have 42. Minnesota United is third with 41 points.<\/p>\n<p>Pilcher, a 22-year-old rookie defender, made it 1-1 in the 80th minute. Anders Dreyer\u2019s corner kick was cleared by Vancouver before Luca Bombino misplayed a shot from the edge of the area that rolled to Pilcher for a first-touch finish from near the penalty spot. <\/p>\n<p>Yohei Takaoka had five saves for Vancouver (12-5-6). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Canadian Press Jul 19, 2025 | 11:11 PM SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Ian Pilcher scored his first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-9837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9837","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=9837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}