Canada Soccer’s Men’s National Team defeated El Salvador 2:0 at Estadio Cuscatlán, in San Salvador, SLV to close the January FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Qualifiers
Canada Soccer’s Men’s National Team defeated El Salvador 2:0 at Estadio Cuscatlán, in San Salvador, SLV to close the January FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Qualifiers window with a perfect 9 points. It was Canada’s first victory in El Salvador since 1986. Canada became the first team to win six straight games in the Concacaf Final Round of World Cup Qualifiers since the new format was adopted in 1997.
Canada leads the Quest for Qatar with 25 points, four points ahead of second-place United States (21 points). Atiba Hutchinson (66‘) and Jonathan Daivd (90’) scored for Canada. Milan Borjan with a series of huge stops in the closing minutes earned his third consecutive clean sheet of the window.
Canada will face Costa Rica away, Jamaica at home, and Panama away to close out the Octagonal FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Qualifiers in March. The top three teams in the group automatically qualify for Qatar 2022 with the fourth-place team sent to face the champion of Oceania Football Confederation in an inter-confederation playoff in June.
“This is a tough place to come, watching on TV you don’t really get a real sense of the atmosphere, but I’m proud, our mission was to own their ground,” said John Herdman, Men’s National Team Head Coach. “Destiny is in our hands, it’s where we wanted to be at this stage. We’ll keep believing. Our country is behind us.”