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What if that wasn’t the humiliation too much? Deprived of the last three World Cups, the Italians will experience another terrible summer, where they will have to find a substitute country to support at the World Cup. Canada smelled a good deal. The Canadian Football Federation offered Italian-Canadian supporters in Toronto a small deal this Saturday that could be useful to them.<\/p>\n
It involves exchanging your Squadra Azzurra jersey for that of the Kanucks to \u201csupport the national team\u201d at the 2026 World Cup. For several hours, fans lined up in front of a caf\u00e9 in the \u201cLittle Italy\u201d district of Toronto to exchange their blue or white tunics, according to images posted on social networks. They left with Canada’s new red home jersey… but were able to keep that of the Nazionale.<\/p>\n
\u201cSoccer in Canada has been built by generations of players, supporters and communities, including Italian-Canadians who have helped keep the passion for our sport alive,\u201d said Paulo Senra, communications manager for Canada Soccer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want every Canadian \u2013 regardless of their historical allegiances \u2013 to join the momentum around our men’s national team, because this time, it’s Canada,\u201d he added, quoted in a Federation press release. Canada has 1.5 million residents of Italian origin, or 4.3% of the population, according to the 2021 census, and more than 80% live in Ontario and Quebec.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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