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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Prologue -- 1 The Rock, the Rooster, and Respectability : Canada's Run to the 1986 World Cup -- 2 "He Had the Ability to Empower People" : Tony Waiters Changed the Way Canadian Players Approached the Game -- 3 Getting a New League, Getting Lost in a Spy Movie, and Getting Concacafed : 1987-1998 -- 4 "He's Got Red in His Veins, but It's Canadian Red" : Craig Forrest's Desire to Play for Canada Changed the Course of His Career |
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5 A Coin Flip, a Golden Goal, and an Unbelievable Champion : Canada's 2000 Gold Cup Win -- 6 "This Is Not Life or Death, It's Sport" : How a Collection of Passionate Fans Tried to Bring Soccer into the Canadian Mainstream Media Landscape -- 7 From Parliament to Frankfurt to Brampton : 2000-2011 -- 8 "Change Was Inevitable" : How Stephen Hart Utilized a Country'sGrowing Multiculturalism to Transform the National Team -- Photo Insert -- 9 A Desperate Proposition, a Lack of Goals, and a Thousand Impediments : 2010-2018 |
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10 "Sometimes There's a Reason Things Happen" : Atiba Hutchinson Forged a Career Unlike Any Other Canadian -- 11 A Brotherhood, Running Red Lights, and Running a New Program : 2018-2021 -- 12 "There Was Freedom of Expression" : Alphonso Davies Represented a Generation of Change and Then Changed the Way People Looked at Canadian Players -- 13 A Poem, a Sword, and an Impossible Dream : The Final Round of 2022 World Cup Qualifying -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author |
| Summary |
"Tracing Canadian men's soccer's emergence from global obscurity to international powerhouse, featuring insight from star players like Alphonso Davies and Jonathan David. The last time Canada qualified for a men's World Cup was in 1986. For a generation afterwards, the Canadian national men's soccer team struggled in obscurity, an afterthought in a country that was not yet soccer-mad. The twenty-first century brought a wave of soccer passion and expertise to this frozen country -- and a crop of new superstar players who lifted the forgotten team into the international spotlight. Alphonso Davies and Jonathan David are now internationally known names, and soccer a national obsession. Through interviews with players and coaches, Joshua Kloke tracks the rise of men's soccer in Canada from darkness to the world stage in 2022. This is the inside story of how the best team in Canadian soccer history grew from disappointment to international fame."-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 04, 2023) |
| Subject |
Canada Men's National Soccer Team -- Interviews
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Canada Men's National Soccer Team -- History
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World Cup (Soccer) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98090291
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World Cup (Soccer) fast (OCoLC)fst01409245 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Interviews.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781459750463 |
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1459750462 |
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1459750470 |
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9781459750470 |
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