Canada won't be moving on to the knockout round in the World Cup, but Montreal's Moroccan community still has plenty to cheer about.
Soccer fans will be packing the cafés and bars across the city for Thursday's Canada-Morocco game, especially in a neighbourhood north of downtown known as "Little Maghreb," where immigrants from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia have been moving to since the 1990s.
"I do hope that it will be a good and entertaining match, and whatever happens, Canada will be represented because Morocco's goalie, Yassine Bounou, was born in Montreal and is Canadian-Moroccan." Hassan Boulal, 50, said he will be watching the game in a bar in downtown Montreal with about 100 other Moroccan Canadians. At the beginning of the tournament, he was supporting both Morocco and Canada, he said.
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