Maxime Crepeau is welcoming the fight as Canada coach Jesse Marsch weighs his decision on the country's No. 1 goalkeeper.

He's also relishing the chance to make his mark where it all began.

The No. 26 Canadian men host No. 25 Australia in a friendly Friday at Montreal's Stade Saputo before facing Colombia on Tuesday in Harrison, N.J., to wrap up the October FIFA international window.

"It's special for me personally to come back here, where I was born and raised and formed by this club," the 31-year-old from nearby Candiac, Que., said at CF Montreal's training facility this week. "I was with the goalkeepers, I was like, 'Guys, this is all my youth, all I've known when I was growing up."'

A longtime national team player and former Montreal academy product, Crepeau spent years waiting in

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