Canadian football ready for World Cup coming out party

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Canada is preparing for a significant event as it hosts its first World Cup matches, marking a major milestone in the country's soccer history. The tournament will showcase 13 matches across major cities like Toronto and Vancouver.

Exactly 150 years after Carlton Cricket Club and Toronto Lacrosse Club took part in the first recorded organised football match in Canada in 1876, Canadian soccer is finally ready for its coming out party.Canada will host 13 matches -- six in Toronto, seven in Vancouver -- with Canada also facing Qatar and Switzerland in Group B. In two previous appearances at the World Cup -- the 1986 finals in Mexico and the 2022 tournament in Qatar -- Canada has compiled a perfect record of futility: played s