{"id":353903,"date":"2026-06-28T23:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353903\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T23:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:43:09","slug":"world-cup-canada-to-play-in-houston-after-beating-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353903\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup: Canada to play in Houston after beating South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada will play in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/world-cup\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> round of 16\u00a0matchup in Houston on the Fourth of July after defeating South Africa on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Eust\u00e1quio scored the game-winning goal for the Canadians in stoppage time to lift the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/article\/canada-beats-south-africa-1-0-in-world-cup-s-22324354.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">to a 1-0 win<\/a>. It marks the first knockout stage win in the country&#8217;s history at a men&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Canada had finished in second place in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s win for Canada also marked the return of Alphonso Davies, the team&#8217;s best player. The\u00a0Bayern Munich star didn&#8217;t play at all during the group stage due to injury but came on as a substitute against South Africa in the 75th\u00a0minute.<\/p>\n<p>Houston&#8217;s next\u00a0matchup takes place at noon Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/world-cup\/article\/japan-world-cup-brazil-round-of-16-22324190.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">between Japan and Brazil<\/a>. Brazil is led by superstar\u00a0Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior, who scored four goals during the group stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada will play in the FIFA World Cup round of 16\u00a0matchup in Houston on the Fourth of July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,119376],"class_list":["post-353903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-tsn-dynamo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}