At 0:00 Beijing time on March 30, the final match of the 2022 World Cup Qualifiers in the Asian Zone Round of 12: the national football team away to Oman. For the national football team that can't get out of the line, competing in the World Preliminary Round, from beginning to end, is just to accompany the prince to study, even if we were full of hopes and hopes...
In 2002, the national football team qualified for the World Cup for the first time, and now, the national football team has been away from the World Cup for twenty years. Twenty years soon, there is no need to fight for the day, as long as you have a goal, the dream has hope to come true, the national football team will enter the World Cup again sooner or later, twenty years can wait. Some are longer than we wait, like Canada.
Canada is larger than China, but has a population of only 38 million, which is not as good as many Chinese provinces, and Canadians are generally not interested in football. In the 1986 World Cup, Canada reached the world cup for the first time, and like the national football team that participated in the World Cup for the first time, it did not score a point in three games in the group stage and did not take the bottom of the group.
In recent years, Canadian football has developed rapidly, and like neighboring countries in the United States, many players have begun to stay in Europe, and some have also entered the five major league giants, such as Bayern defender Alfonso Davis. In the 2022 World Cup, Canada is once again in the harvest season.
In the early morning of March 28, Beijing time, in the 13th round of the Final Round of the North American Region in the World Preliminary Round, Canada hosted Jamaica.
Canada's FIFA ranks 33rd in the world and Jamaica's FIFA ranks 62nd in the world.
Jamaica, the Caribbean island country, the population of less than 3 million, the strongest sport is sprinting, although the football movement was carried out early, but in 1966 began to participate in the World Cup qualifiers, in 1998 shortlisted for the World Cup, although the FIFA ranking is still higher than the national football team, but the participation in the World Preliminary Tournament, is also similar to the national football team.
In the game, Canada started 4231, center Jonathan David, forward line Larín, Osorio, Butchanan, double backs Ostakio, Hoylet, four defenders Adekubi, Kennedy, Henry, Lair, goalkeeper Milan Bojan. The total value of the starting eleven is 84.3 million euros.
Jamaica started 343, With Nelson, Green and Begrave. The total value of the starting eleven is only 4.1 million euros.
In the 13th minute of the first half, Ostakio accurately cut through, Larin formed a single knife, faced the Jamaican goalkeeper with a kick, the ball was scored! Canada 1:0 Jamaica.
In the 44th minute, a Canadian free-kick was fired and Buchanan swept the post. Canada 2:0 Jamaica.
In the 82nd minute, a Canadian corner kick was released and Hoylet poked a shot inside the penalty area to give Canada 3-0 Jamaica.
In the 87th minute, Mariapa Oolong gave a gift and Canada locked the score at 4:0.
In the world preliminary round, Canada won 13 games, 8 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss, ranked first in the North American finals table in the World Preliminary Round, the United States and Mexico were ranked second and third with 25 points, Costa Rica was 22 points fourth, and Canada locked the top three in the standings in the first round, after 36 years, once again broke into the World Cup finals.