Canadian men to host Iran in June soccer friendly at B.C. Place Stadium
Canada will host Iran in a males’s soccer pleasant on June 5 in Vancouver.
The match is a part of a two-game homestand at B.C. Place Stadium. The Canadian males will open CONCACAF Nations League A play there towards Curacao on June 9 earlier than closing out the FIFA worldwide window with one other CONCACAF Nations League recreation towards Honduras in San Pedro Sula on June 13.
Canada, ranked thirty eighth on the earth, and No. 21 Iran are each getting ready for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar this November.
Canada will play in Group F alongside Belgium, Serbia and Morocco whereas Iran is in Group B with England, the U.S. and a European playoff winner nonetheless to be determined.
The Vancouver matches are the primary for Canada on dwelling soil since qualifying for the World Cup in a 4-0 win over Jamaica at Toronto’s BMO Subject on March 27. It additionally marks the Canadian males’s first go to to B.C. Place since March 2019 after they beat French Guiana 4-1 in CONCACAF Nations League qualifying.
The Canadians topped the ultimate spherical of CONCACAF qualifying with an 8-2-4 report. Their final recreation was a 1-0 loss in Panama on March 30.
Canada has a 1-2-0 all-time report towards Iran, profitable the latest encounter 1-0 in April 2001 in Cairo. Iran posted 1-0 wins in 1997 and 1999 video games in Toronto and Edmonton, respectively.
The Iran fixture is among the few World Cup warmups for John Herdman’s crew prematurely of Qatar. Herdman has stated he’ll look to take the crew to Europe within the fall to play a number of extra matches to organize for Qatar.
The Canadian males have performed simply two non-CONCACAF groups since Herdman took over in January 2018 — a 1-0 loss to Iceland in January 2020 and a 1-0 win over New Zealand in March 2018 in Herdman’s first recreation on the helm.
Herdman’s report with the Canadian males is 29-8-4 with the one losses to the U.S. (twice), Mexico (twice), Haiti, Iceland, Costa Rica and Panama.
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Canada opens World Cup play Nov. 23 towards No. 2 Belgium earlier than dealing with No. 16 Croatia on Nov. 27 and No. 24 Morocco on Dec. 1.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Might 12, 2022.
