reportedly<\/a> included five stoppages because of the snow, and when the teams had to play extra time, plows were brought onto the field in Ottawa to create better playing conditions \u2014 causing a lengthy delay.<\/p>\nThe eye-popping first sign of winter also included a hero, as Atletico Ottawa midfielder David Rodriguez scored a stunning bicycle kick to tie the game in the 40th minute and also scored the winner in the 107th minute over Calgary\u2019s Cavalry FC \u2014 a 2-1 victory \u2014 in front of 13,132 fans.<\/p>\n
Atletico Ottawa\u2019s David Rodr\u00edguez (7) scores on Cavalry FC\u2019s Ali Musse (7) during extra time in Canadian Premier League Final on Nov. 9, 2025. AP<\/p>\n
Cavalry FC\u2019s Ali Musse, left, leaps over Atletico Ottawa\u2019s Lo\u00efc Cloutier, right, as he fights to regain possession of the ball during the Canadian Premier League Final on Nov. 9, 2025. AP<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m never going to forget this night,\u201d Rodriguez, who is from Mexico and saw snow for the first time this year, said after the game. \u201cI just want to thank all the people that showed up tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Cavalry defender Fraser Aird put his team up 1-0 in the 33rd minute, Atletico fans launched snowballs at him.<\/p>\n
Seven minutes later, Rodriguez scored the bicycle kick goal that Ottawa coach Diego Mejia described as \u201cthe best goal ever in this league.\u201d<\/p>\n
The playing conditions were bad enough that in the 16th minute, Ottawa goalkeeper Nathan Ingham started shoveling snow himself.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
A shirtless Ottawa fan celebrates his team\u2019s win in the Canadian Premier League Final on Nov. 9, 2025. AP<\/p>\n
Atletico Ottawa celebrates winning the Canadian Premier League Final on Nov. 9, 2025. AP<\/p>\n
The championship is Ottawa\u2019s first in the young league, which has crowned seven champions; Cavalry won the CPL championship last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat wasn\u2019t a game,\u201d Cavalry coach Tommy Wheeldon Jr. said. \u201cThat was a fight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian Premier League season ended with a massive snowstorm and some insane soccer action. Regulation of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[103,60376,403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-283720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-snow","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}