{"id":250573,"date":"2026-06-29T04:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/canada-has-world-cup-breakthrough-by-reaching-first-round-of-16\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T04:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:37:31","slug":"canada-has-world-cup-breakthrough-by-reaching-first-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/canada-has-world-cup-breakthrough-by-reaching-first-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada has World Cup breakthrough by reaching first Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Canada isn&#8217;t ready for its dream <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/soccer\/topics\/fifa_world_cup\/17265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 FIFA World Cup<\/a> run to end.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Canada, which earlier in the group stage recorded its first World Cup point and victory, advanced to the Round of 16 for the first time in national team history with a thrilling 1-0 win over South Africa<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder Stephen Eustaquio scored the winning goal, firing a shot from just outside the goalie box two minutes into stoppage time and sending Canada to the next round, where it will play either the Netherlands or Morocco on Jul. 4 in Houston.<\/p>\n<h2>Canada reaches Round of 16 for first time with 1-0 win over South Africa<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/soccer\/articles\/canada_has_world_cup_breakthrough_by_reaching_first_round_of_16\/s1_13132_44005678\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada isn&#8217;t ready for its dream 2026 FIFA World Cup run to end. On Sunday, Canada, which earlier in the group stage recorded its first World Cup point and victory, advanced to the Round of 16 for the first time in national team history with a thrilling 1-0 win over South Africa Midfielder Stephen Eustaquio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}