{"id":16161,"date":"2026-06-16T17:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/?p=16161"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:02:29","slug":"scotlands-historic-world-cup-victory-after-36-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/scotlands-historic-world-cup-victory-after-36-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland&#8217;s historic World Cup victory after 36 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scotland registered their first win in 36 years at the ongoing FIFA World Cup, defeating Haiti 1-0 in a Group C match on Saturday.\u00a0Scotland&#8217;s only goal in the 28th minute was scored by John McGinn, who fired a shot into the net after Che Adams&#8217; shot deflected off goalkeeper Johnny Placide.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scotland, playing in their first World Cup since 1998, last won the World Cup in 1990, defeating Sweden 2-1. The team has not won a World Cup since then.\u00a0Earlier on Saturday, Scotland moved to the top of the group after the strong teams of the group, Brazil and Morocco, drew 1-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haiti, which participated only in the 1974 World Cup in West Germany, is still looking for its first point in the World Cup.\u00a0The team was denied a goal in the 17th minute of the game when a shot by Scotland captain Scott McTominay hit the top of the post.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haiti created a few chances to equalize in the second half. In the 74th minute, Wilson Isidore failed to capitalize on a pass from Ruben Providence. In the 84th minute, Franziska Pierrot&#8217;s header also went wide of the left post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scotland will now face Morocco on June 20 and Brazil on June 25. Similarly, Haiti will face Brazil on June 20 and Morocco on June 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland registered their first win in 36 years at the ongoing FIFA World Cup, defeating Haiti 1-0 in a Group C match on Saturday.\u00a0Scotland&#8217;s only goal in the 28th minute was scored by John McGinn, who fired a shot into the net after Che Adams&#8217; shot deflected off goalkeeper Johnny Placide.\u00a0 Scotland, playing in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[468,449],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16163,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16161\/revisions\/16163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16161"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=16161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}