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With Major League Soccer’s 20th season set to kick off on March 6, a number of contentious player moves have placed an even brighter spotlight on the underwhelming Canadian senior men’s program.

Canada’s lone trip to the FIFA World Cup in 1986 is such a distant memory that a vast majority of the current generation is completely unaware of it. The older Canadian soccer supporters have been frustrated for a very long time and, unfortunately, there appears to be no realistic solution in sight anytime soon.

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Canada currently sits 112th in the FIFA World Rankings, sandwiched between Namibia (111) and Cuba (113), and behind non-soccer powers such as Faroe Islands (103), Botswana (106) and Sudan (108). In the CONCACAF region, Canada sits 13th, ranked behind minnows Antigua and Barbuda (95) and the Dominican Republic (105). Since the FIFA rankings were introduced in 1992, Canada’s average ranking is a mediocre 76th.