Could Toronto become a hardcore soccer city? 'I think it already is. It just needed to come together, and it has around the men’s national team,' says the legendary goalkeeper
30,000 soccer fans flocked to BMO Field, adorned in their finest red and white, amid bitter cold and brutal winds, to watch the Canadian men’s national team qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, with a 4-0 win over Jamaica. It’s only the second time the Canadian men have qualified for the tournament, and a staggering 17 of the 25 players on the squad are from the GTA, giving the achievement additional local significance.
When I played, we used to get almost no home advantage, because so few fans would turn up that we would say, “Let’s just play our games in the Yukon. We’ll take the opposition up there and freeze their asses off!” The wind at BMO Field last Sunday was like nothing I’d seen. It was so strong. Canadian coach John Herdman was standing there and said to me, “Bloody hell, this is cold.” They had these huge blast heaters and I gotta say, they were pretty nice.
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