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Canada Soccer Part VII: Copa America Semifinal Edition

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Tuggy said:
Part of it is lack of exposure to the masses.

They've been buried on OneSoccer (nothing against OneSoccer, it's just not a popular platform). Now they've got a national audience.

Canada was the best team in Concacaf in qualifying for the last WC, so this isn't coming out of nowhere.

They are the best team in Concacaf IMO and they are just getting better. If they can figure how to finish some of the chances they are able to create, then who knows how good they could be.

For those of us that have followed this program for decades, it's really exciting.

I'm happy that they are performing like this in such a big tournament and on the national stage here in Canada on TSN.
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I tend to watch the post game reactions from external sources like ESPN just to get a feel of the perception that Canada has outside of this nation.

For the most part, they are still treated more like a Panama or Honduras, and they still have the united states and Mexico on a different pedestal.

Taking 8 out of a possible 12 points against those countries in world cup qualifiers was not enough to change that perception, and neither is this run in copa.

Are they the best team in concacaf? I suppose we could argue that the best talent is Davies, and David might be the best at his position, but In totality, I don't think it's the best collection of talent, but they should still be held in bit more of a regard than than they currently are in this region.
 
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robertmac43 said:
Do you know where the Cat 2 tickets are in comparison to CAT 3?

Hard to find for Copa in comparison to the World Cup
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I don't see that big of a drop. If we get a large enough group, our 4some will have no issues dropping back to cat 3 so we're all seated together.

Prices are like $50 to $75 difference so far.
 
JianYang said:
I tend to watch the post game reactions from external sources like ESPN just to get a feel of the perception that Canada has outside of this nation.

For the most part, they are still treated more like a Panama or Honduras, and they still have the united states and Mexico on a different pedestal.

Taking 8 out of a possible 12 points against those countries in world cup qualifiers was not enough to change that perception, and neither is this run in copa.

Are they the best team in concacaf? I suppose we could argue that the best talent is Davies, and David might be the best at his position, but In totality, I don't think it's the best collection of talent, but they should still be held in bit more of a regard than than they currently are in this region.
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I don't think crapping their pants at the WC helped.
 
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al secord said:
I don't see that big of a drop. If we get a large enough group, our 4some will have no issues dropping back to cat 3 so we're all seated together.

Prices are like $50 to $75 difference so far.
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Oh are you not going through the Voyageurs ticket pricing?
 
Spring in Fialta said:
I don't think crapping their pants at the WC helped.
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The US and Mexico didn't really do much either in that tournament.

In fairness though, that was a tough grouping for Canada. Both Morocco and Croatia went very deep in that tournament, and the other team was Belgium who was r more highly regarded than the teams that actually made it through.
 
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Tuggy said:
Part of it is lack of exposure to the masses.

They've been buried on OneSoccer (nothing against OneSoccer, it's just not a popular platform). Now they've got a national audience.

Canada was the best team in Concacaf in qualifying for the last WC, so this isn't coming out of nowhere.

They are the best team in Concacaf IMO and they are just getting better. If they can figure how to finish some of the chances they are able to create, then who knows how good they could be.

For those of us that have followed this program for decades, it's really exciting.

I'm happy that they are performing like this in such a big tournament and on the national stage here in Canada on TSN.
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With any finishing ability this match is a laugher! In all seriousness it could’ve ended 4-1 or 5-1
 
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Extremely poor start from Panama.. horrid goalkeeping for this penalty.. was going to have a heck of a time doing anything with that ball.

James...
 
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