Staff writer at The Athletic (⚽/🏒)• The Voyageurs: The Canadian Men's Soccer Team's Quest for the World Cup • Pizzaiolo-in-training
Joshua Kloke
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Canada's 6-0 World Cup win wasn’t just a novel. It was Homer’s Odyssey, set on the shores of False Creek.
Inside the biggest night in Canadian men's soccer history, what it means for the sport and what comes next for #CANMNT
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Canada need more from Jonathan David at the World Cup. How can they get it?
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It's the biggest game in Canadian men's soccer history today.
To get you ready, all unlocked at @theathleticfc.bsky.social
#CANMNT is using virtual reality for an edge:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/729...
Lineup changes: www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...
It's time for Alphonso Davies to lead Canada:
Canada looked better in their second half against Bosnia. Could that impact their lineup against Qatar?
What I’m hearing and seeing from Canada’s training in Vancouver, unlocked for all at @theathleticfc.bsky.social #CANMNT
To earn their first men's World Cup win, Canada need to play lightning fast soccer.
How have they been preparing to do that? With the help of virtual reality.
I tried the program #CANMNT is using and hoping gives them an edge, unlocked at @theathleticfc.bsky.social
The 2026 World Cup always felt like Alphonso Davies’ time to take Canadian soccer to new places.
Yet Davies’ connection to his national team has seemed in question.
Can #CANMNT’s superstar lead at the World Cup? New feature unlocked at @theathleticfc.bsky.social
Jesse Marsch dropped Cyle Larin from his World Cup opener starting lineup.
Canada then couldn’t finish their chances. They needed their former leading scorer.
Larin’s redemption story keeps #CANMNT’s knockout round hopes alive. Unlocked at @theathleticfc.bsky.social
Ismaël Koné absent from Canada training today with two days to go before their World Cup opener.
What we know, at @theathletic.com #CANMNT
Canada needed a hero for their first World Cup point.
They turned to an oft-forgotten veteran, who delivered.
How hometown boy Cyle Larin scored the biggest goal of his career and kept #CANMNT ’s knockout round hopes alive, unlocked at @theathleticfc.bsky.social
Canada’s 6-0 World Cup win over Qatar had everything — truly a novel.
So my editors told me: go write the novel.
• “It should feel like hell”
• Inside the brawl
• Taking care of Koné’s family
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