Beijing time this morning, the 2022 World Cup in the North American qualifiers, Canada beat Jamaica 4-0, got the World Cup tickets in the early round, and also played the World Cup after 36 years.
Although bayern full-back Alfonso Davis is out of the game due to injury, Canada is still significantly better than Jamaica. Larin, Buchana and Hoylet went down three cities in a row, and the Jamaican defender swung himself before the finale to complete the Maple Leaf Army's promotion.
All three Canadian goalscorers have played in the Europa League, with 27-year-old left winger Serre Larin playing for Besiktas in the Turkish Super League, 23-year-old Buchana playing for traditional Bundesliga giants Brugge and 31-year-old Hoylet, who has played in English football for many years and is currently playing in Championship Reading.
In fact, in addition to 11 players on Canada's current national team 25-man roster, the remaining 14 play in the Europa League. This is a team that has been branded as Europe.
Canadian coach John Herdman is an Englishman who served as Sunderland's youth coach, led the Canadian women's football team to the World Cup, and became the first head coach in international football to lead both the men's and women's national teams to the World Cup.
Alfonso Davis, who is worth up to 70 million euros, was not called up by the national team due to myocarditis, and he opened a live broadcast room to invite fans to watch the game together and witness the Canadian team's unsurprising victory in front of the screen.
The referee final whistle blew, "Ah Fang" cried with joy, covered his face with his hands and lay down on the ground, shouting in his mouth: "Oh my God, I'm going to the World Cup, we're going to the World Cup." I can't believe it. I was in tears, my dream was coming true. ”
After 13 rounds, Canada won 8 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss in central and north American regions, accumulated 28 points, and qualified from the group in the first round of the first round, which was the first team in Central and North America to win the World Cup place, and also became the 20th team to qualify for the World Cup.
At present, more than half of the Top 32 places in the World Cup have been distributed, and only 12 tickets are left to be revealed.
According to statistics, Canada is the second time to play in the World Cup after a gap of 36 years, and the last time they qualified was the distant 1986 World Cup in Mexico.
In maradona's world cup, Canada and the former Soviet Union, France, Hungary were in the same group, the result was 0-1 loss to France, 0-2 to the former Soviet Union, 0-2 to Hungary, three group games 0 goals and 0 points out of the bottom.
Such results may remind fans of the first time the Chinese men's football team has entered the World Cup, and it is also a three-game defeat, 0-2 Costa Rica, 0-4 Brazil, 0-3 Turkey, 0 goals and 0 points at the bottom of the group. The difference is that Canada conceded 5 goals, while the Chinese men's team conceded 9 goals.
Just five years ago, in March 2017, in FIFA's FIFA national team world rankings, Lippi's Chinese men's football team ranked 86th in the world, and Canada ranked 117th in the world. The Chinese men's football team ranked more than 30 times higher.
But five years later, Canada has come to 33rd in the world, jumped 84th, and once again advanced to the World Cup after 36 years. The Chinese men's football team did not qualify early in the World Preliminary Round of 12, won only one game in 9 rounds, and lost 1-3 to Vietnam on the first day of the Chinese New Year.
In the past, when the Chinese football world was still creating arguments over the topics of "Feng Gong War" and "Yu Dabao should not be inserted", Dong Lu and other so-called football media people set off various war of words, as a football fan, don't you feel sad?
In my lifetime, if I want to witness the Chinese men's football team enter the World Cup again, I am afraid that it will need a miracle.