Team Canada to call Toronto Home

Canada Opens World Cup Qualifying With Toronto Stand - Globe and Mail

Captain Canada and a victim of TFC/MLSE mismanagement

Team Canada (the association football version) will make Toronto, and more specifically, the as of yet illogically named (for FIFA games anyways) Canadian National Soccer Stadium its home for it's first run of qualifying games for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. The senior men's team has only played a handful of games in Toronto since the stadium went up, and only one meaningful game (a crushing draw with Jamaica that effectively ended the 2010 World Cup campaign almost before it began).

With the teams Canada has been drawn against, and hopefully the stability provided by a consistent home field (which will hopefully, but not likely provide a home crowd as well), the squad should make it through to the next round of qualifying. SHOULD. But this is Canada's men's national team, and they rarely do as their supposed to (unless they're supposed to lose, they're pretty good at meeting that bar).

Of note, all three games will take place on Friday nights, which should make for some, lets call them, "lively" attendees.

Hopefully ticket prices are reasonable so that casual Canadian soccer fans will consider going, as opposed to the cash grab mentality that normally pervades CSA ticket distrubution methods wherein they attempt to overcharge knowing that the fans of the other team (i.e. whoever is playing against Canada) will pay almost anything to watch "their" team (despite the fact that presumably a large number of those supporters now live and work in Canada.

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