Four More Years, Canada

September 13, 2008 at 9:06 am , , ,

By Ben Knight Globe & Mail On Soccer

Knight: World Cup reality check
The goal was never to win the World Cup.

The goal – simply – was to qualify.

To do that, Canada needed to build the third, or maybe fourth-best national men’s soccer team in the combined area of North and Central America and the Caribbean.

In practical terms, that meant Canada had to be better than Honduras and/or Costa Rica.

We are not better than Honduras – and because Honduras ended up in our qualifying group along with relatively mighty Mexico, that is going to be fatal.

Four more years, Canada. Four more years.

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