Canadian soccer in the winter? It’s gritty.

With frigid winds and snow at Toronto FC ’s training ground on Thursday, the Canadian men’s national team fine-tuned for their final two matches of 2025, starting with Ecuador on Thursday night at BMO Field (7:30 pm ET).

The match is expected to feature the largest home crowd since the 2022 World Cup qualifying cycle, with 35,000 fans set to fill the stadium that will host Canada's 2026 FIFA World Cup opener next June.

“It’s going to be amazing," LAFC midfielder Mathieu Choinière smirked in regards to next summer's tournament.

“We have a few months left, and we're building something. We're expecting a loud crowd here, and that's what we're gonna need for the World Cup as we try to bring everybody, the community, behind us, because t

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