For a country that has waited 36 years for a return to the FIFA World Cup, the past three days have been agonizing as the 2022 tournament is underway.
Canada will play Belgium at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium up the road from here Wednesday in its first World Cup game since 1986. On Monday, Canada held its penultimate training session before taking to the field against the European powerhouse.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“We have maximum respect for Belgium, but we have maximum respect for ourselves; for where we are and we want to keep growing,” Canada centre back Steven Vitoria said on Monday. “We’re not done since we got to this stage, I remember that clearly the night we qualified against Jamaica, our coach told us that night we were going to start preparing for what we wanted out of this tournament.”
Canada goes into the game against Belgium off a 2-1 exhibition win against Japan in Dubai, UAE last week. It was a game Canada pulled out with a last second penalty converted by Lucas Cavallini with a deft little chip called a ‘Panenka’ named after the Czech player who first used it.Postmedia’s soccer expert Derek Van Diest is on the ground in Qatar to cover every kickoff of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
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