{"id":88399,"date":"2026-06-14T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/88399\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:37:08","slug":"justin-trudeau-uses-katy-perry-excuse-for-watching-usmnt-over-canada-at-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/88399\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau uses Katy Perry excuse for watching USMNT over Canada at World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can\u2019t spell USA without \u201cUS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau drew plenty of criticism on Friday when he skipped Canada\u2019s opening World Cup match in Toronto in favor of watching the USA face Paraguay in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau\u2019s girlfriend, pop star Katy Perry, performed at the tournament\u2019s opening ceremony at SoFi Stadium, and he explained it was his duty to support her in person.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Trudeau skipped the Canada game to watch the USA with girlfriend Katy Perry Fox Sports<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes supportive boyfriend duties call,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JustinTrudeau\/status\/2065977680814543297\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cBut you know who I\u2019m rooting for to take the Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Trudeau was criticized by some for not attending Canada\u2019s first World Cup game on home soil, he saw the better contest in reality.<\/p>\n<p>Perry performed at the World Cup opening ceremony in LA REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>The USMNT were tremendous as they <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/12\/sports\/usmnt-dominates-paraguay-in-promising-world-cup-opener\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defeated Paraguay 4-1<\/a>, with Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s team producing a memorable, free-flowing performance.<\/p>\n<p>Folarin Balogun scored a brace in the contest and Gio Reyna added a late punctuation mark after Paraguay\u2019s Dami\u00e1n Bobadilla opened the scoring for the USA with an own goal.<\/p>\n<p>Canada, meanwhile, dominated Bosnia for long stretches but were forced to settle for a 1-1 draw after Cyle Larin scored the tying goal off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Cyle Larin scored the equalizer for Canada as they settled for a tie against Bosnia EDUARDO LIMA\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau served as the Prime Minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025 before he resigned from the position.<\/p>\n<p>He started dating Perry during the summer last year.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau will have at least two more chances to watch Canada in the World Cup if he chooses, as the Maple Leafs will be facing both Qatar and Switzerland in Vancouver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You can\u2019t spell USA without \u201cUS.\u201d Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau drew plenty of criticism on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,127,986,205,49,7722,3543],"class_list":["post-88399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-katy-perry","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-us-mens-national-team","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88399","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=88399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}