{"id":25118,"date":"2021-11-26T17:10:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T17:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/regional\/hamilton-set-to-host-world-cup-qualifier-between-canada-and-usa\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T20:35:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:35:11","slug":"hamilton-set-to-host-world-cup-qualifier-between-canada-and-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/hamilton\/hamilton-set-to-host-world-cup-qualifier-between-canada-and-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton set to host World Cup qualifier between Canada and USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton has been selected to host a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadasoccer.com\/news\/canada-to-continue-world-cup-qatar-2022-qualifying-campaign-in-hamilton-on\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifier<\/a> at Tim Hortons Field, where Canada\u2019s men\u2019s national team will go head-to-head with the USA in a pivotal match.<\/p>\n<p>The news was announced on Thursday by Canada Soccer, with the match scheduled for January 30th, 2022 in the midst of a three-match window for the Canada men\u2019s national team, who will also face Honduras on January 27th and El Salvador on February 2nd.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Canada to continue World Cup Qatar 2022 Qualifying campaign in Hamilton, ON <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CANMNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CANMNT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6SoCNAPLNb\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/6SoCNAPLNb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yo6G8skD9b\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Yo6G8skD9b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Canada Soccer (@CanadaSoccerEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadaSoccerEN\/status\/1463967178881998848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to bring the Men\u2019s National Team FIFA World Cup Qualifiers match to Hamilton in January with the team riding a nation-wide wave of support at the top of the table and after an incredible display from Edmontonians in November,\u201d said Dr. Nick Bontis, President of Canada Soccer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking forward to seeing a Sea of Red at Tim Hortons Field in January for the Men\u2019s National Team\u2019s FIFA World Cup Qualifiers as we have throughout the Final Round with our fans continuing to push the Men\u2019s National Team to new heights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are not yet on sale for the exciting match, but news on that is expected in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadasoccer.com\/news\/canada-to-continue-world-cup-qatar-2022-qualifying-campaign-in-hamilton-on\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lead image courtesy of Unsplash<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamilton has been selected to host a FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifier at Tim Hortons Field, where Canada\u2019s men\u2019s national team will go head-to-head with the USA in a pivotal match. The news was...","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":25119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8065],"tags":[146,323,283,19,20,706,229,209,2283],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/worldcup.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29048,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25118\/revisions\/29048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}