{"id":94765,"date":"2026-06-19T01:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/94765\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T01:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:34:06","slug":"fifa-world-cup-ismael-kone-injury-mars-canadas-record-6-0-triumph-over-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/94765\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa World Cup: Ismael Kone injury mars Canada\u2019s record 6-0 triumph over Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">The seriousness of the injury was immediately apparent as team-mates frantically called for help from the Canadian medical staff on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Kone was eventually stretchered off the pitch, waving to the crowd as he inhaled from an oxygen pipe.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Jacob Shaffelburg of Canada celebrates the team's fifth goal against Qatar during the Fifa World Cup 2026 Group B match at BC Place Vancouver. Photo \/ AFP\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Jacob Shaffelburg of Canada celebrates the team&#8217;s fifth goal against Qatar during the Fifa World Cup 2026 Group B match at BC Place Vancouver. Photo \/ AFP<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Madibo, who had initially been given a yellow card for the tackle, was sent off after it was upgraded to red following a VAR review &#8211; the second Qatari dismissal after Homam el-Amin was given his marching orders in the first half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">With Qatar down to nine men, Canada took full advantage to score three more goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Saliba &#8211; who had replaced the injured Kone &#8211; curled in a free-kick to make it 4-0 in the 64th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">The substitute celebrated his goal by racing to the sideline to hold up a replica of the stricken Kone\u2019s Canadian jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Another substitute, Jacob Shaffelburg, then helped make it 5-0, his fierce shot turned into the Qatar goal by defender Mohammad Manai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">David, who had scored twice in the first half after Cyle Larin\u2019s 16th-minute opener, then completed his hat-trick in the second minute of stoppage time to complete the rout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Go all in to unlock every Fifa World Cup 2026 match with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/passes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/passes\">TVNZ+ Event Pass<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The seriousness of the injury was immediately apparent as team-mates frantically called for help from the Canadian medical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35319,17,13590,35322,3722,35323,1314,15983,7752,35325,17442,35317,35318,35324,9309,33345,35326,35321,4149,541,11695,3833,35320,28316,16563,4157,1645],"class_list":["post-94765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-35319","tag-canada","tag-canadas","tag-clinch","tag-cup","tag-ever","tag-fifa","tag-first","tag-group","tag-horrific","tag-injury","tag-ismael","tag-kone","tag-marred","tag-mars","tag-match","tag-midfielder","tag-nineman","tag-over","tag-qatar","tag-record","tag-their","tag-thrashed","tag-today","tag-triumph","tag-victory","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94765","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=94765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}