Canada's Atiba Hutchinson celebrates scoring his side's opening goal against El Salvador during a qualifying soccer match for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 at Cuscatlan stadium in San Salvador, El Salvador, Feb. 2, 2022. Hutchinson was among 26 players picked for the World Cup roster Sunday, Nov. 13, by coach John Herdman.
Atiba Hutchinson shares the highs and lows of his journey from playing soccer on a patchy field behind his school in Brampton, Ont., to captaining the Canadian men’s team at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar in his new memoir, The Beautiful Dream.Canada's Atiba Hutchinson shares the highs and lows of his decades-long soccer career in his new memoir, The Beautiful Dream. Canadian soccer player Atiba Hutchinson's illustrious career began on a patchy field behind a public school in Brampton, Ont.
"I get goosebumps, just the experience of all of it. The whole journey was very surreal," said Hutchinson.You write a lot the book about these younger days … and how you all really were representing the countries that you originated from.… How do you think that influenced the kind of players you all became, and the player you became?
He really did believe in me from a very young age. He would always go out there and bring me on the pitch — playing in parks, and just working on the little details of the game — the passing, the control. You need to have results for that to happen, and we started slowly getting those results. And then once the fans are there, and the performances are at a good level, I think everything just really clicked at the right time, and it has skyrocketed.
They love the game so much. They just show so much love and appreciation. They did that for me from the moment I got there. They really like to see players that give 100 per cent effort every time they go out onto the pitch. And that was me as a person, as a player.
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