FIFA World Cup Day 8 recap: Switzerland, Canada and Mexico win

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VANCOUVER, Canada — When the first men’s World Cup game played in Canada kicked off last week, Anthony Totera sat in the stands and wept.

“It was a dream come true,” said Totera, who has spent most of his 57 years on earth promoting Canadian soccer. “I can’t describe the emotions. It was something surreal.”

If the 1994 World Cup, the first held in the U.S., forever altered the direction of American soccer, this summer’s tournament, which Canada is sharing with the U.S. and Mexico, has the potential to do the same for that country.

Mexico 1, South Korea 0 — Full time

Mexico holds on to defeat South Korea and win Group A at the World Cup. The win allows Mexico to play its next three matches in Mexico City.

South Korea turned on the pressure in the final minutes but couldn’t capitalize off the first two cornerkicks of the game as Mexico’s defenders won battles in the box and cleared the ball away.

Mexico 1, South Korea 0 — 50th minute

Luis Romo scored after a botched save attempt by South Korea goalkeeper Kim Seung-gyu, taking the loose ball and kicking it into a wide-open goal to send the Guadalajara crowd into a frenzy.

Seung-gyu tried to catch a high volley outside the six-yard box, but hit his own teammate and the ball bounced to Romo, who kicked it into the goal.

South Korea will need to start taking some risks to test a stingy Mexico defense if they want to win Group A.

Mexico looks to move into sole possession of the top spot in Group A with a World Cup win over South Korea on Thursday night.

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Mexico defeats South Korea to advance to World Cup knockout stage

Luis Romo scores in the 50th minute to help lift Mexico to a 1-0 victory over South Korea in World Cup Group A play in Guadalajara on Thursday night.

June 18, 2026

VANCOUVER, Canada — Jonathan David scored three goals and Canada won its first World Cup match while all but securing a spot in the knockout round with a 6-0 victory over Qatar on Thursday.

Qatar was reduced to nine players because of red cards in the chaotic match. Assim Madibo was handed a red early in the second half after a tackle on Ismaël Koné, who was stretched off with a serious injury to his lower left leg. Homan Ahmed was sent off in the first half for a challenge on Tajon Buchanan.

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Highlights from Canada’s 6-0 win over Qatar at the World Cup on Thursday.

Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney attended the match after missing the team’s opener in Toronto last week because of the G7 summit in France. He sat with FIFA President Gianni Infantino.

Cyle Larin scored his second goal of the tournament on a rebound in the 16th minute. Qatar goalkeeper Mahmoud Abunada punched away David’s volley but it fell to Larin, who pointed to his ears in celebration as the red-clad crowd roared.

David doubled the lead with a right-footed volley in the 29th, for his first goal in the run of play in more than a year.

Ahmed was sent off with a red card in the 33rd. The official initially pointed to the penalty spot, but after video review Canada was given a free kick just outside the box and the initial yellow card handed to Ahmed was changed to red.

Canada made it 3-0 in first-half stoppage time when David scored in a scramble in front of the net off a shot that caromed off the crossbar. Qatari players stood with their hands on their hips in frustration while Canada celebrated.

Canada’s players surrounded Koné in concern when he suffered the scary-looking injury early in the second half, and Madibo was clearly distraught before he was ejected.

Nathan Saliba, who came in as a substitute for Koné, scored on a free kick in the 64th to make it 4-0. Mohamed Manai deflected a shot past his goalkeeper for an own goal in the 75th.

David completed the hat trick in stoppage time, joining Argentina’s Lionel Messi as the only players with three goals in a match in this World Cup.

Canada captain Alphonso Davies was available after he missed the opener while recovering from a hamstring injury. Moïse Bombito was also available after missing Canada’s opening World Cup match, a 1-1 draw against Bosnia-Herzegovina on Friday in Toronto. Neither Davies or Bombito played.

Qatar scored a stoppage-time goal to earn a surprising 1-1 draw with Group B favorite Switzerland in its opener. The Persian Gulf country was still looking for its first World Cup win after losing all of its group matches four years ago as the host.

Switzerland defeated Bosnia-Herzegovina 4-1 earlier in the day in Group B.

Peterson writes for the Associated Press.

Canada 5, Qatar 0 — 79th minute

Nathan Saliba, who replaced Ismael Kone after the Canadian midfielder sustained an apparent broken leg, scored in the 64th minute, and Mohamed Manai scored in the 75th minute as Canada continued to dominate Qatar.

Two red cards have left Qatar with only nine players — and the entire game has been played on Qatar’s side of the field, much to the joy of the Canadian fans at BC Place in Vancouver.

Canada 3, Qatar 0 — 55th minute

Canada midfielder Ismael Kone sustained an apparent broken leg and had to be taken off on a stretcher.

Kone waved to the crowd as he was taken off.

Qatar’s Assim Madibo was given a red card on the play. It was Qatar’s second red card, putting them two players down.

Nathan Saliba replaced Kone on the field.

SEATTLE — Christian Pulisic’s status for the United States’ second World Cup match Friday in Seattle is uncertain a week after he aggravated a left calf injury.

“Tonight, we have a meeting with our medical staff. We will assess the whole group,” U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino told reporters Thursday. “He’s evolving and much better from Friday. We will see.

“If [he’s] not available tomorrow, he’ll be back for Turkey.”

Canada 3, Qatar 0 — 45th minute + 3

Jonathan David scored his second goal of the match on a volley after a header by Cyle Larin was blocked by Qatar goalkeeper Mahmoud Abunada and David kicked it in at the goal line.

Qatar, which received a red card in the 33rd minute, is completely overwhelmed. Almost all play has been in and around that Qatari box.

Santa Ana has long been a soccer-mad town, the type of place where amateur leagues have existed for decades, soccer stores seem as common as Catholic churches and park space is at such a premium that children play in the parking lots of county government buildings after workers leave for the day. After any big win for Mexico’s men’s football squad, thousands of ecstatic fans gather at the intersection of Bristol Street and McFadden Avenue well into the night.

But when Spain beat the Netherlands in the FIFA World Cup final in 2010, Santa Ana’s Fourth Street — the historical cultural and economic heart of Latino Orange County — was dead.

The city was in the height of its gentrification era, when bureaucrats were handing out hundreds of thousands of dollars in subsidies to out-of-towners with hipster businesses in a no-so-subtle way to push out working class Latinos.

The cantinas that my father frequented in the 1970s during his borracho days were long gone. Few of the bars and restaurants that took their place bothered to air the World Cup finale. Only one restaurant, Lola Gaspar, had a bona fide watch party, and I remember scoffing as a group of besotted gringos wearing Barcelona and Real Madrid jerseys clumsily kicked a soccer ball around after the match.

At that point, I predicted that Santa Ana would turn into a Silver Lake or Echo Park, a formerly diverse neighborhood turned insufferable and unrecognizable by newcomers. But a funny thing happened over the years: The children of those working class Latinos grew up and began reclaiming La Cuatro for themselves.

Today, downtown Santa Ana is packed with chipster — Chicano hipster — businesses, from coffee houses to barber shops, restaurants to vintage shops. And they have been slammed this World Cup.

Last night, Colombians wearing the country’s traditional bright yellow jersey were dancing to cumbias at Chapter One: The Modern Bistro long after Los Cafeteros beat Uzbekistan 2-1. As I write this from my wife’s Alta Baja Market, people are wandering around wearing one El Tri jersey or another. Cars wave el tricolor; vendors are setting up pop-up tents to sell Mexico flags, noisemakers and anything red, white and green.

If Mexico beats South Korea tonight, expect the pachangas in downtown Santa Ana to last long into the night. And expect me to be in the middle cheering loudly — not just for El Tri’s triumph, but for the Reconquista of downtown SanTana through soccer. We did it, raza.

Canada 2, Qatar 0 — 33rd minute

Qatar defender Luc de Fougerolles was given a red card for bringing him down Canada forward Tajon Buchanan as he tried to gain control of the ball just outside the goal box.

Qatar will have to play with 10 players for the rest of the match.

Canada 2, Qatar 0 — 29th minute

Jonathan David teed up a deflected shot out of mid-air and set a blast past Qatar goalkeeper Mahmoud Abunada to double Canada’s lead.

Canada has more or less dominated the match. It has four shots on goal so far and has controlled the ball two-thirds of the time.

Canada 1, Qatar 0 — 16th minute

Cyle Larin scored his second goal of the World Cup, capitalizing off a ricocheted following a powerful shot by Jonathan David in the box to give the Canadians an early lead.

Alistair Johnston’s deep cross from near the goal line on the right side found David, whose powerful kick was stopped by Qatar goalkeeper Mahmoud Abunada. But no one was there to clear the ball for Qatar, allowing Larin to score.

The World Cup heads to Vancouver where host nation Canada looks to solidifying their chances of reaching the knockout round against Qatar.

Both teams are tied with one point in the Group B standings, with a winner set to move into a tie at the top of the table with Switzerland, which beat Bosnia and Herzegovina this afternoon.

Qatar played to a draw with Switzerland in its World Cup opener and Canada tied Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Here’s where things stand through the first two matches of the day at the FIFA World Cup.

Bosnia and Herzegovina was ahead of schedule returning to the World Cup stage for the first time since 1994.

For 73 minutes, a large group of Bosnians at SoFi Stadium roared approval as their team clogged the box in front of its resilient goalkeeper Nikola Vasilj and held potent Switzerland scoreless.

Then the Swiss finally broke through en route to a 4-1 win in front of an announced crowd of 70,026.

The victory vaulted Switzerland to the top of Group B with four points and a valuable +3 goal differential. The rest of the group has one point apiece, with Canada playing Qatar later Thursday.

“Against a team like this, we had to be patient,” Swiss midfielder Remo Freuler said. “But as the game kept going, the space between their lines got a little bigger. We added some speed in the second half off the bench and I think this was the key to game. Just be patient and then later push tempo.

“We have all this pressure, but there was a little bit more today, because yeah, we expected more from the first game. To get goals and the win today was really important.”

In the 74th minute, Bosnia couldn’t clear the ball in front of goal and it finally fell to substitute Johan Manzambi, who volleyed a shot Vasilj could not stop.

Then the Bosnians made a mistake that crushed any chance of a rally.

Frustration flared up and Tarik Muharemovic was hit with a costly red card and sent off for a bad tackle on the edge of the box. Switzerland could not scoring on the ensuing kick, but it didn’t take long to exploit holes in Bonsia’s 10-man defense.

Switzerland predictably found far more space in the Bosnia box than it did before the red card. With thee quick passes from the right to the left side of the box, the Swiss scored. Breel Embolo was credited on the assist and Rubén Vargas slotted the ball back across the face of goal for the score in the 84th minute.

Bosnia lost the ability to park five players in front of its goal Vargas took advantage again. He passed to Manzamnbi, who slotted home another Switzerland goal in the 90th minute.

Bosnia scored a consolation goal later in stoppage time.

The team lobbed the ball in on a corner kick and the ball was deflected. Ermin Mahmić gathered the ball at the top of the box and rocketed home a goal.

The Bosnians, who outnumbered the Swiss at SoFi Stadium, celebrated. Mahmić called the fan support incredible and said it felt as though the team was playing at home.

“They support us all over the world,” he said. “It’s not normal, to be honest, and we’re very thankful for them.”

Time could not expire quickly enough for Bosnia’s defense.

The team avoided another red card that would have left it without two key players available for selection in its final group stage match.

However, Bosnia was called for a foul in the box that set up Switzerland for a penalty kick at extreme close range. Switzerland’s Granit Xhaka easily scored the final goal of the match.

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Highlights from Switzerland’s 4-1 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina at the World Cup on Thursday.

Switzerland 4, Bosnia and Herzegovina 1, 90th minute + 6

Bosnia found its breakthrough goal in stoppage time.

The team lobbed the ball in on a corner kick and the ball was deflected. Ermin Mahmić gathered the ball at the top of the box and rocketed home a goal.

Switzerland 3, Bosnia and Herzegovina 0, 90th minute

Bosnia has lost the ability to park five players in front of its goal and the result was an avalanche of Swiss goals.

Rubén Vargas passed to Johan Manzamnbi, who slotted home another Switzerland goal.

Switzerland 2, Bosnia and Herzegovina 0, 84th minute

Switzerland predictably found far more space in the Bosnia box than it did before the red card. With thee quick passes from the right to the left side of the box, the Swiss scored. Breel Embolo was credited on the assist and Rubén Vargas slotted the ball back across the face of goal for the score.

Switzerland 1, Bosnia and Herzegovina 0, 80th minute

Frustration is flaring up on the Bosnian side, with Tarik Muharemovic getting a red card for a bad tackle on the edge of the box. Switzerland could not score on the ensuing kick, but it will now only have to contend with 10 Bosnian players.

Switzerland 1, Bosnia and Herzegovina 0, 74th minute

Switzerland was finally rewarded for all its runs into the Bosnia and Herzegovina box. Bosnia couldn’t clear the ball in front of goal and it finally fell to Johan Manzambi, who volleyed a shot resilient Bosnian goalkeeper Nikola Vasilj could not stop.

Bosnia and Herzegovina 0, Switzerland 0, 52nd minute

Switzerland moved the ball into the left side of the box and Dan Ndoye took a strong shot, but Bosnia goalkeeper Nikola Vasilj punched it into the air and over the cross bar. After a conversation, referees determined the Swiss were offsides and gave the ball to Vasilj instead of Switzerland taking a corner kick.

The Bosnia defense remains a puzzle the Swiss have struggled to solve.

Bosnia and Herzegovina 0, Switzerland 0, halftime

After a slow start focused almost entirely on clogging the front of its goal to deny Switzerland a clean look, underdog Bosnia managed multiple runs into Swiss territory to the delight of its fans. Bosnia reached the Switzerland box seven times and held a 2-1 advantage on attempts inside the box.

Bosnia and Herzegovina 0, Switzerland 0, 31st minute

Bosnia and Herzegovina and Switzerland remain scoreless shortly after the hydration break. The Swiss have dominated possession, but Bosnia has managed to turn away every dangerous push toward goal so far.

Bosnia and Herzegovina 0, Switzerland 0, 10th minute

Bosnia and Herzegovina and Switzerland have kicked off at packed SoFi Stadium, with Bosnia fan chants echoing through the venue early.

ATLANTA — Teboho Mokoena started the game with tears in his eyes and finished it with a smile on his face after converting a second-half penalty in South Africa’s 1-1 draw with the Czech Republic on Thursday at the World Cup.

Thapelo Maseko’s long range shot late in the match caught the hand of Czech opponent Pavel Sulc in the area.

Mokoena, who was shown on camera with tears rolling down his cheeks during the pre-game national anthem, stepped up to the penalty spot and sent his shot low past Czech Republic goalkeeper Matej Kovar in the 83rd minute.

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Highlights from a 1-1 draw between South Africa and Czechia in World Cup Group A play Thursday.

The South Africa midfielder said he was overwhelmed before kick off, thinking about his late grandfather.

“I know, wherever he is, he would be proud of me,” Mokoena said. “I just felt his presence in that moment. I thought if he was here, he would be proud of me because I know he believed in me when nobody believed in me.”

Michal Sadilek had given the Czechs the lead in the sixth minute at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Alexandr Sojka played in Sadilek and he slid a shot past goalkeeper Ronwen Williams.

Both teams lost their opening matches, and both knew another setback would seriously hinder their chances of reaching the round of 32.

South Africa faced some strong criticism following its 2-0 loss to World Cup co-host Mexico, which raised the prospect of the country extending its run of never having advanced to the knockout phase of a World Cup — even as host in 2010.

“If we go on like that and if we can make another performance like today I think we have a chance to go in the second round,” South Africa coach Hugo Broos said.

South Africa will next face South Korea on Wednesday in Group A, but will be without Mokoena, who is suspended after picking up his second yellow card of the tournament.

The Czechs lost to South Korea 2-1 in their opening match and will likely need to beat Mexico in their final game on Wednesday to advance.

Robson writes for the Associated Press.

A hand ball in the box by Czechia led to a South African penalty kick converted by Teboho Mokoena in the 83rd minute to tie things up in Atlanta.

Béla Guttmann may be the most consequential soccer coach you’ve never heard of. But if it weren’t for Guttmann, you may never have heard of Pelé.

And Brazil may never have become the greatest soccer-playing country on Earth.

That’s because Guttmann changed the shape of modern Brazilian soccer — and changed the sport forever — when he imported the revolutionary 4-2-4 system from Hungary to Sao Paulo in 1957. A year later, Brazil won the first of five World Cups and the joga bonito was born.

More men have been elected president of the United States than have played for the U.S. in a World Cup game on home soil.

It is among the rarest of achievements in a country that has achieved so much.

Two dozen Americans have flown to the moon, 116 have sat on the Supreme Court, 25 have run a mile in under 3:51 and 76 have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Michal Sadílek scores in the sixth minute to give Czechia the lead over South Africa in Atlanta.

Both teams lost their openers, meaning neither can afford another setback. But South Africa will be without two key players in midfielders Yaya Sithole and Themba Zwane, who both drew red cards in the team’s loss to Mexico. Ladislav Krejci’s second-half goal gave Czechia the lead briefly in its loss to South Korea. It was the country’s first World Cup lead since a 3-0 win over the U.S. in group play in 2006.

Mexican midfielder Edson Álvarez underwent surgery on his left ankle after getting injured during a match with his club team, Fenerbahce, last February. It kept him sidelined from both his Turkish squad and the Mexican national team.

At times, his participation in this summer’s World Cup was in jeopardy.

But thanks to his resilience, Álvarez will be Mexico’s captain as he plays in his third World Cup. He is one of the key leaders of coach Javier Aguirre’s team that will aim to reach at least the quarterfinals — a feat that has eluded El Tri in the last eight World Cups.

Argentina’s Lionel Messi isn’t the only one scoring in the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Fox and Telemundo are off to a blazing start in the TV ratings for the quadrennial soccer tournament, delivering big increases over the 2022 World Cup held in Qatar.

MIAMI — The eight teams playing World Cup matches on Thursday are taking part in an International Day for Countering Hate Speech commemoration, with a pre-match exchange of pennants denouncing such language.

Captains involved in the Czechia-South Africa, Mexico-South Korea, Switzerland-Bosnia-Herzegovina and Canada-Qatar matches will have pennants reading “We Play Together. We Stand Against Hate” with the wording in English on one side and the teams’ native language on the other.

FIFA says it has deleted more than 30 million abusive posts and comments since its social media protection service was created before the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

FIFA says it deleted nearly 400,000 negative or abusive posts in the first few days of this World Cup — more than it did in the entirety of the 2022 event.

Other stadium activations involving that message are planned during Thursday’s matches.

SEATTLE — If a pregnant Nigerian woman had been allowed to board a plane 25 years ago, the U.S. team’s path through this summer’s World Cup may have unfolded much differently. Instead, a gate agent turned her away, insisting it wasn’t safe for her to fly from New York to London.

So Florence Balogun returned to Brooklyn, where she had been visiting relatives, and waited for her second son to be born. And when Folarin arrived a few weeks later, entering the world just hours before Independence Day dawned, he did so as an American citizen.

It was that quirk of fate that allowed Balogun, who lived just two months in the U.S., to represent the country on soccer’s biggest stage.

Unprecedented sports feats and historical firsts are usually joyous affairs. Something to celebrate, fun trivia to tuck away for later.

On Monday in Inglewood, the history was much more fraught, and not at all trivial.

Iran’s national soccer team played on American soil — this time on SoFi Stadium’s natural turf — for the first time in 26 years. And for the first time, a country hosted a World Cup participant with which it is mired in an on-again, off-again war.

The U.S. men’s soccer team isn’t only trying to win games in this World Cup. It is trying to win hearts and minds as well.

“We want the game to grow,” star midfielder Christian Pulisic said. “We want to get Americans excited to watch this game, to watch our team. That’s obviously a big goal of ours. And being successful would give that the best boost.”

The Americans certainly got a great start Friday, opening the second World Cup played on U.S. soil with a dominant 4-1 win over Paraguay. It was one of the most complete performances the American men have had on the sport’s biggest stage, with Folarin Balogun scoring twice, Pulisic setting up two goals, and just one momentary lapse on defense separating goalkeeper Matt Freese from a shutout.

There’s the Scottish soccer fan who marveled at our wildly varied landscape and welcoming communities as he walked from L.A. to Boston, arriving in time to see Scotland play Haiti on Saturday. There’s the German traveling in the opposite direction from Atlanta who could not get over the wonders of the hospitable South, from Stone Mountain to Buc-ees. There’s the Swede promoting the power of ranch dressing, the Italians marveling at fountain drinks with ice and free refills, the English rhapsodizing over chicken parm and just about everyone shouting out the friendliness of the businesses that served them. Even the “beauty” of American trucks, big yellow school buses and eight-lane freeways have gotten their fair share of shout-outs.

Just in time for the semiquincentennial, the churning waves of social media discontent have parted and given us a glimpse of how these United States look (and taste) to wide-eyed World Cup attendees. And it is glorious.

Guillermo “Memo” Ochoa has experienced nearly everything a Mexican soccer player could imagine. World Cups, titles, criticism, adulation, impossible saves and nights when he practically carried the weight of an entire national team on his own. But at 40, the legendary Guadalajara-born goalkeeper seems to be looking toward the end of his career with a different kind of calm. No drama. No exaggerated nostalgia. Like someone who knows exactly what he has achieved and what he still wants to give to Mexican soccer before saying goodbye.

The Mexican goalkeeper recently confirmed that the 2026 World Cup will be the last of his career with the Mexican national team and likely also as a professional soccer player, thus closing a career that will place him on a list reserved for few names in soccer history.

Julian Ryerson hadn’t learned to walk the last time Norway played in the World Cup. He was just 7 months old then, and if he had known his country was going to go 0 for the 21st century when it came to World Cup qualifying, he might have considered pursuing a sport other than soccer.

But that drought will finally end next week when Norway plays in the World Cup for the first time in nearly three decades.

“It’s been a long wait, especially for the Norwegian people,” he said. “They’ve been waiting as long as I am old. So yeah, I think everybody’s ready.”

The run-up to the World Cup in Los Angeles was marked by anxiety over how immigration enforcement, travel restrictions and anti-Trump backlash would affect the spirit and attendance of the games.

But on the streets of L.A. over the last week, something very different has happened.

Fans from a kaleidoscope of cultural backgrounds have come together to act out the kind of world — and city — they want to live in.

May was a great month for L.A. Metro. And then came the World Cup, with droves of fans making their way to local stadiums and watch parties.

After the leap in ridership last month, early numbers in June show that game-day ridership is high for Metro. As for the experience of taking public transit in L.A. amid the crush, the reviews are mixed.

“The transit is impossible,” said Ignacio Santa Cruz, who had traveled to Los Angeles from Asuncion, Paraguay, to see his country’s national team play the U.S. on Friday.

SEATTLE — Growing up the son of an NFL wide receiver, Alex Freeman said he felt a lot of pressure to play the American version of football, not the one the rest of the world plays.

“I always got asked if football was the path,” he said last summer. “But I always had a secret love for soccer.”

And he had to keep it a secret because he wasn’t sure his father Antonio, a Super Bowl winner with the Green Bay Packers, would understand.

The first seven days of the 2026 FIFA World Cup are over, with the U.S. and Mexico each winning their group stage openers. However, several teams in the World Cup field are still looking to hit the competitive pitch for the first time.

Here’s everything you need to know about matches being played on Thursday in the 48-team tournament across the U.S., Mexico and Canada (all times Pacific).

Here’s a look at where things stand in each group heading into Thursday’s matches:

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