{"id":116469,"date":"2026-07-04T20:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/116469\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T20:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:58:23","slug":"canadas-historic-world-cup-run-ends-in-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/116469\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s historic World Cup run ends in Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada<\/a>‘s historic run in the 2026 FIFA World Cup<\/a> ended with a 3-0 loss<\/a> to Morocco in the Round of 16 at Houston Stadium on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The Atlas Lions advance to meet either Paraguay or France in the quarterfinals on July 9 at Boston Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Midfielder Azzedine Ounahi broke the scoreless draw five minutes into the second half, firing a low shot first-time from just outside the box off a free-kick service from captain Achraf Hakimi.<\/p>\n

Striker Tani Oluwaseyi had Canada’s best chance of a scoreless first half, spinning in the box and putting a shot on frame. But the former\u00a0Minnesota United FC<\/a> standout was denied by goalkeeper Yassine Bounou, who came off his line to make a kick save.<\/p>\n

A golden opportunity for an equalizer emerged with a free kick just outside the 18-yard box. But star striker Jonathan David clipped his shot over the wall and over the net in the 78th minute.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A minute later, Tajon Buchanan fired on frame from distance, with Bounou diving to parry the ball away for a corner.<\/p>\n

Ounahi put the match away in the 82nd minute with his second goal, capitalizing on a quick counter after Canada pushed numbers forward in search of the tying goal. And Soufiane Rahimi added a third deep into second-half stoppage time.<\/p>\n

\n Goals<\/p>\n

50′ – MAR – Azzedine Ounahi | WATCH<\/a>
\n82′ – MAR – Azzedine Ounahi | WATCH<\/a>
\n90+8′ – MAR – Soufiane Rahimi | WATCH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada‘s historic run in the 2026 FIFA World Cup ended with a 3-0 loss to Morocco in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,39620,1068,30208,1072,3543],"class_list":["post-116469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-canvsmar-07-04-2026","tag-match-reaction","tag-morocco","tag-sendtonews","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}