Soccer In Canada
Association football, more commonly known in Canada as soccer, is the most popular sport in terms of participation rate. According to FIFA's Big Count, 2,695,712 people played in Canada in 2006.
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“We want beans, not goals.”
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—Irving Layton (b. 1912)