{"id":394678,"date":"2022-11-21T00:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394678"},"modified":"2022-11-21T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T16:16:17","slug":"we-want-to-show-that-we-are-a-football-nation-says-canada-captain","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/we-want-to-show-that-we-are-a-football-nation-says-canada-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We want to show that we are a football nation,&#8221; says Canada captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada aim to surprise their opponents and show they are a football nation when they make their first appearance at the World Cup finals since 1986, Toronto FC midfielder Jonathan Osorio said after a training session on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;We want to show that we are a football nation.&quot; \u26bd\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Osorio speaks about what <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CANMNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CANMNT<\/a> wants to show the world and how far they can go at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FIFAWorldCup<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeCAN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WeCAN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vKbRaLrkGK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vKbRaLrkGK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Canada Soccer (@CanadaSoccerEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadaSoccerEN\/status\/1594432545328107520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed space-y-4 pb-4 text-neutral-500 dark:text-lightText [&amp;_a]:inline-block\">\n<p>Canada, the first CONCACAF country to book a spot in the 2022 finals, will play against the second-ranked Belgium on Wednesday in their first World Cup match in 36 years.<\/p>\n<p>They crashed out at the group stage at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico with losses to France, Hungary and the Soviet Union after failing to score a goal.<\/p>\n<p>Their other group F opponents are on 2018 World Cup finalists Croatia and Morocco, who were unbeaten in African qualifying.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is actually happening \ud83e\udd2f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeCAN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WeCAN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7wqp2GBd4t\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/7wqp2GBd4t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Canada Soccer (@CanadaSoccerEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadaSoccerEN\/status\/1594454837533474818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed space-y-4 pb-4 text-neutral-500 dark:text-lightText [&amp;_a]:inline-block [&amp;_a]:text-blue-600 hover:[&amp;_a]:hover:text-blue-500\">\n<p>&#8220;We want to show that we are a football nation, that we can compete with the best in the world,&#8221; Osorio, who was sidelined by post-concussion syndrome for several months, said after a training session on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to surprise people because I think people still see us as underdogs. &#8216;It&#8217;s the World Cup, they should just be happy to be here.&#8217; But that&#8217;s not our mentality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Osorio added that Canada would need to be tactically sound, play as a unit and choose the right time to apply pressure against players like the Manchetser City star Kevin De Bruyne.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have players that can hurt you with an inch of space,&#8221; Osorio said.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium&#8217;s record goalscorer Romelu Lukaku will probably miss his team&#8217;s opener due to a hamstring injury. The forward trained apart from the squad on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As players, we just prepare for whoever we stand opposite to,&#8221; Osorio said of Lukaku&#8217;s absence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada aim to surprise their opponents and show they are a football nation when they make their first appearance at the World Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394679,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16866,16867],"news_category":[14235,14236,16671],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Canada will make their first appearance at the World Cup since 1986","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394678"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394678"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}