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VANCOUVER, Canada.<\/strong>\u2013 Dominican Rub\u00e9n Vargas<\/strong> expressed his satisfaction after becoming one of the protagonists of Switzerland’s historic qualification for the quarterfinals of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, after overcoming Colombia in a dramatic penalty shootout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You might be interested in:<\/a><\/strong>Dominican Rub\u00e9n Vargas plays the hero for Switzerland with the qualifying penalty<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n “We are very happy to have qualified today. It was a very tough match<\/strong>“, stated the Swiss winger in the mixed zone at BC Place in Vancouver, after a high-intensity match that was decided from the penalty spot, where Switzerland prevailed 4-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vargas, who scored the decisive penalty that sealed the Swiss team’s passage to the next round, highlighted the team’s collective effort to overcome a complicated Colombian side and keep the World Cup dream alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With qualification secured, the footballer of Dominican roots stated that the squad is already thinking about the next challenge: facing the reigning world champion, Argentina, in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We all know who Argentina is, but for us everything is possible<\/strong>“, the attacker stated confidently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Switzerland will now look to pull off another surprise in the tournament when they face the team led by Lionel Messi, in a duel that will define one of the semifinalists of the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" VANCOUVER, Canada.\u2013 Dominican Rub\u00e9n Vargas expressed his satisfaction after becoming one of the protagonists of Switzerland’s historic qualification for the quarterfinals of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, after overcoming Colombia in a dramatic penalty shootout. You might be interested in:Dominican Rub\u00e9n Vargas plays the hero for Switzerland with the qualifying penalty “We are very happy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":513968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943],"tags":[43601,40231,40853],"class_list":["post-513608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-breakingnews","tag-dominican-republic","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-29C0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/6430b02c02de6.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Football"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/6430b02c02de6.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}