Football surging in Canada a year from World Cup hosting

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TORONTO: Canada usually does not attract international football attention, but when it hosts its first World Cup match next year, global fans will face the country where the sport is promoted.

The Kick of the Cook of the Canada is set in Toronto on June 12, 2026 in the opening World Cup match, which is permanently listed as the world’s most diverse, where immigration has pushed the rise of football.

Data Football Rating – More commonly known as football in Canada – as the most famous sport in Canada’s youth and, while the country maintains its love for ice hockey, families struggle to participate in the game, often due to cost.

Majid Ali operates the Toronto Islamic Soccer League, which serves Muslim youths in the eastern Skarburo neighborhood of Toronto, a historic migrant. “I founded this league with 34 children in 1996,” said Ali, who migrated from Trinidad in 1986.

He told AFP, “We started a player with a fee of just $ 20), the current weather fee is a minor Cen $ 100 ($ 74). Ali said that the league now counts about 1,1500 players, with weightlist, with development, he is the wave of immigration in Muslim communities.

He remembered the arrival of refugees from Somalia and Kosovo in the 1990s, followed by people who fled the conflict in Afghanistan and Syria. Ali said, “Over the years, we have seen an explosion of diversity.

A Jump Start Foundation’s 2024 report, which detects Youth Games in Canada, found that “football is the most famous game permanently played.” This search applies to all settlement groups, except for the disabled youth.

Overall, 62 % of Canada’s youth reported playing football more than once in the last three years, and at the same time swimming up to 44 %. Although football has established a wide range of popularity, the Jump Start report clearly states that the game is ethnic and ethnic.

In terms of breeding and breeding priority, Jump Start recorded 76 % of Arab youths in Canada as their high choice of football, followed by South Asian (69 %), white people are ranked sixth on the list.

The rise of football has also been reduced to the participation of Youth Hockey. “Football is cheaper than hockey,” said Dave Cooper, an associate professor of physical education at Toronto University.

Jump Start reports hockey rank fifth in the rate of participation, stating that the rate of young Canadians playing hockey has decreased by 33 % in the last 15 years. Eric Vicelor Toronto Social Services Organization runs Youth Sports programs at Woodgrain.

The program meets low -income families, especially new immigrants, and has focused on football and basketball because, “People are asking for this.” “We are not just choosing a game,” he said. “We know where the energy is.” The vaccine said that AFP football has proved an ideal avenue to give immigrants a sense of community in their new home.

It regularly lives in more than one job and lives in apartments full of more than one family-those who do not have the ability to manage extracurricular sports for their children.

The vaccine said they bounce on the occasion of putting their children in a familiar game. “I have never seen more complimentary people in my life.” Despite being a year away, the vaccler said that young people who face them know that the World Cup is coming and the tournament, which is shared with the United States and Mexico, provides the opportunity to “take the next level” in Canada.

Canada’s interest in the World Cup has increased in recent years, with people who have a family connection-or in 2022, Canada directly, the national team and its star player Alfonso Davis qualified for the Qatar tournament after the absence of the 36-year World Cup.

Cooper said, but next summer, an unprecedented moment for Canada will be marked. “We haven’t hosted anything like this before.” In addition to Toronto, the World Cup matches will also be played in Vancouver.