VANCOUVER – There will be two World Cup components coming to an end today in Vancouver.<\/p>\n
When Switzerland and Colombia square off this afternoon in a round of 16 game at BC Place Stadium, it will mark the seventh and final World Cup match at the multi-purpose stadium in Vancouver’s False Creek.<\/p>\n
It will also spell the end of either Switzerland or Colombia’s bid for world soccer supremacy.<\/p>\n
Switzerland, listed at No. 15 in FIFA’s current rankings, topped Group B with two wins and a draw, beating Canada 2-1 on June 24 in Vancouver in the process. Switzerland then beat Algeria 2-0 on July 2 in the round of 32, also in Vancouver.<\/p>\n
Colombia, listed at No. 11 in FIFA’s current rankings, topped Group K with two wins and a draw, and edged Ghana 1-0 on Friday in a round of 32 match in Kansas City. Ghana didn’t allow a shot on goal after taking an early lead.<\/p>\n
Both attacking sides are expected to field healthy lineups for today’s 1 p.m. PT kick off.<\/p>\n
And netminders Gregor Kobel (Switzerland) and Camilo Vargas (Colombia) have been superb in the tournament. Switzerland scored seven goals and surrendered three in group-stage play, while Colombia scored four goals and allowed one over three group-stage matches.<\/p>\n
Argentina and Egypt will play today’s early game in Atlanta. The winner of that match and today’s winner in Vancouver will meet in the quarterfinals on Saturday in Kansas City.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 6, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER – There will be two World Cup components coming to an end today in Vancouver. When Switzerland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[49024,49025,49022,10940,49023,307,17,18659],"class_list":["post-98917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-association-football-competitions","tag-association-football-competitions-for-men","tag-colombia-national-football-team","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-ghana-national-football-team","tag-sports","tag-switzerland","tag-vancouver"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116878497733679985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}