🤯 With one touch, Canada make World Cup history | OneFootball

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·12 June 2026

🤯 With one touch, Canada make World Cup history

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His very first touch of the ball in the match was enough to inevitably link him to Canadian soccer history.

Cyle Larin scored after coming on as a substitute to make it 1-1 in the Group B opener between Canada and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The super-sub goal meant far more than just the Canucks’ first goal at a home World Cup.


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It secured the co-hosts their very first World Cup point ever. In their previous appearances in 1986 and 2022, the Reds suffered three group-stage defeats each time. Across six matches, they had also scored only twice until now. Hopefully they do not maintain that scoring rate in 2026 — because if they do, we have seen Canada’s last goal of this World Cup today.

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