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Content reviewed: 2026-09-12<\/p>\n

The story of June 12, 2026 in Toronto is not simply the final 1\u20131: Canada came back from a half-time deficit to earn their first men\u2019s World Cup point. Canada Soccer<\/a> records a completed match at BMO Field, with kickoff at 15:00 EDT. This is a record of that occasion, not a preview of another visit to the stadium.<\/p>\n

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Original Let\u2019s Canada graphic drawn from the official match record; not a photograph.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Concacaf recap<\/a> describes Sead Kola\u0161inac flicking on a corner for Jovo Luki\u0107 to head Bosnia and Herzegovina ahead in the 21st minute. Cyle Larin equalized in the 78th. For supporters waiting for a goal, the turnaround was from 0\u20131 to 1\u20131: a first point, rather than a first victory.<\/p>\n

Page 2 of the official FIFA match report<\/a> records Promise David replacing Jonathan David at 61 minutes. Larin replaced Tani Oluwaseyi at 76 and scored at 78, assisted by Promise David. The two Davids are different players. The official goal minute is 78; it is neither a stoppage-time goal nor the minute of Larin\u2019s introduction.<\/p>\n

Page 3 lists Canada\u2019s possession at 61%, with 13 attempts and four on target, against 39%, eight and three for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Those numbers help when revisiting the game, but more possession or attempts do not turn a draw into a win. Our introduction to football\u2019s rules<\/a> explains goals and corners. This account stays at the opening-match moment and does not present its points as the final group standings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Review Canada\u2019s June 12, 2026 opener: Luki\u0107 scores at 21, Larin enters at 76 and equalizes at 78. Separate a first point from a first win and read the match statistics carefully.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lc_last_content_reviewed_at":"2026-07-20T10:00:00Z","_lc_last_fact_checked_at":"2026-07-20T10:00:00Z","_lc_fact_check_status":"verified","_lc_source_grade":"A","_lc_source_titles":"","_lc_source_publish_dates":"","_lc_source_accessed_at":"2026-09-12T15:08:54+00:00","_lc_claims_checked":"date_time: 2026-07-01 | sports_result: 2026-07 \/ 1-1 \/ \u9032\u7403 | superlative_record: \u5b98\u65b9","_lc_claims_corrected":"Unsupported material claims removed from public display; original content retained in protected post meta; URL retained as noindex historical archive.","_lc_unresolved_claims":"","_lc_correction_note_required":"1","_lc_reviewer_notes":"","_lc_fact_check_source_urls":["https:\/\/fdp.fifa.org\/assetspublic\/ce281\/r12458\/pdf\/FullTimeMatchReport-English.pdf","https:\/\/www.canadasoccer.com\/match\/4696\/","https:\/\/www.concacaf.com\/competitions\/fifa-world-cup\/news\/canada-earns-first-world-cup-point-against-bosnia-and-herzegovina"],"_lc_affiliate_widget_allowed":"","_lc_affiliate_widget_type":"","_lc_affiliate_widget_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,227,229,231,235,717],"tags":[195,284,128,159,191,263,156,542,291,557],"lc_primary_section":[777],"lc_location":[781],"lc_topic":[817],"lc_freshness":[833],"class_list":["post-4585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-cup","category-wc-news","category-229","category-231","category-235","category-world-cup-results","tag-bmo-field","tag-b","tag-world-cup-2026","tag-159","tag-191","tag-263","tag-156","tag-542","tag-291","tag-557","lc_primary_section-historical-features","lc_location-toronto","lc_topic-sports","lc_freshness-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11856,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions\/11856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"lc_primary_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lc_primary_section?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"lc_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lc_location?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"lc_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lc_topic?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"lc_freshness","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lc_freshness?post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}