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Germany, Belgium and Croatia are among the many groups that may play video games in Canada in group play at subsequent summer season’s FIFA World Cup.
The total schedule of the expanded 48-team, 104-game event was introduced Saturday in Washington D.C.
Canada is staging 13 video games, seven in Vancouver and 6 in Toronto. Three of these video games are within the knockout rounds.
Toronto will host No. 72 Ghana versus No. 30 Panama (June 17, Group L), No. 9 Germany versus No. 42 Ivory Coast (June 20, Group E), Panama versus No. 10 Croatia (June 23, Group L) and No. 19 Senegal versus a playoff winner — Iraq, Bolivia or Suriname — (June 26, Group I).
Vancouver will host No. 26 Australia versus a European playoff winner (June 13, Group D) and No. 86 New Zealand versus No. 34 Egypt and No. 8 Belgium (June 21 and 26, Group G).
Meaning Canada may see such stars as Egypt’s Mo Salah, Croatia’s Luka Modric and Germany’s Joshua Kimmich.
Ivory Coast has performed in Toronto earlier than, defeating Canada in a penalty shootout on June 4 within the Canadian Protect event.
Canada’s schedule
As one of many co-hosts, Canada’s schedule had been finalized with Friday’s draw.
The Twenty seventh-ranked Canadian males will host a workforce from the European playoffs, with No. 12 Italy one of many 4 groups concerned, on June 12 in Toronto earlier than heading west to Vancouver, the place they are going to face No. 51 Qatar on June 18 and No. 17 Switzerland on June 24.
Each Vancouver video games are at B.C. Place Stadium.
Ought to the Canadian males win their group, they’d keep in Vancouver for his or her round-of-32 recreation and, in the event that they maintain profitable, a round-of-16 matchup.
Ought to Canada end runner-up, it could face the second-place workforce in Mexico’s Group A.
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Toronto’s lone recreation after the group stage is a Spherical-of-32 matchup that includes the runners-up from Group Okay and L, which may imply Colombia and Croatia.
Stadium dimension clearly performed a serious position within the schedule with marquee groups enjoying in big venues.
Toronto’s BMO Area, with a event capability of 54,000, and B.C. Place (54,000) cannot compete with big NFL stadiums.
No. 1 Spain will play its first two Group H video games at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium (capability 75,000) in opposition to debutant Cabo Verde and Saudi Arabia earlier than shifting to Guadalajara, Mexico, to fulfill Uruguay at Estadio Akron (48,000).
Defending champion Argentina, ranked second on the earth, will open Group J play in opposition to Algeria at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas Metropolis (76,400) earlier than dealing with Austria and Jordan at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas (80,000).
No. 3 France will open Group I play in opposition to Senegal at MetLife Stadium (82,500) earlier than dealing with a playoff winner (Iraq, Bolivia or Suriname) at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Monetary Area (69,000) and Norway in Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. (65,000).
No. 4 England opens Group L play in opposition to Croatia at AT&T Stadium in Texas earlier than dealing with Ghana at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough and Panama at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
No. 5 Brazil is enjoying at MetLife Stadium, Philadelphia’s Lincoln Monetary Area and Miami’s Laborious Rock Stadium (capability 65,000).
