Canada coach Jesse Marsch celebrates the team's win in a Copa America quarter-final match against Venezuela in Arlington, Texas, on Friday, July 5, 2024.

Like many Canadians, Jesse Marsch stayed up late to watch the Toronto Blue Jays’ remarkable playoff run.

Given the Canada men’s soccer coach is based in Italy, that meant very late.

“Since I’ve been living in Europe, I’ve only gotten up in the middle of the night to watch football, soccer matches — until the World Series this year,” Marsch told a virtual availability Thursday.

“So I was a Jays fan, maybe not as much as the rest of Toronto, the rest of Canada, but this is the first time, for another sport, that I was getting up in the middle of the night because I had the fever as well.”

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