{"id":300949,"date":"2025-12-05T19:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/300949\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T19:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:34:10","slug":"world-cup-2026-draw-live-watch-reaction-text-updates-as-england-scotland-learn-group-stage-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/300949\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026 Draw LIVE: Watch reaction &#038; text updates as England &#038; Scotland learn group stage opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Postpublished at 19:15 GMT<\/p>\n<p>19:15 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1be00ff4-6e6b-4990-9642-7cc10a49784c.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Nadine Yousif<br \/>reporting from Toronto<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A few cheers erupted at Cafe Diplomatico here in Toronto\u2019s Little Italy after the final draw revealed that Canada could play Italy as part of Group B.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThat\u2019s incredible,\u201d says Steve Torchia, who is cheering for both Team Canada and his home country of Italy, adding that it is his dream to watch Canada play Italy here in his hometown of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Of course, we won\u2019t know if Italy will qualify until March. Their play-off group also includes Wales, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overall, Torchia says he feels good about Canada\u2019s grouping. Switzerland will be a tough team to beat, but he expects Canada will give them a good game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He adds that Team Canada has a good chance of defeating Qatar and coming out in the top two overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Postpublished at 19:15 GMT 19:15 GMT Nadine Yousifreporting from Toronto A few cheers erupted at Cafe Diplomatico here&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-300949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}