Canada — 2026 World Cup Squad

Group B looks navigable rather than daunting for the Canadians, with Bosnia & Herzegovina and Qatar the company to be kept, and a knockout berth there to be seized by a generation that has stopped apologising for its presence. The spine has genuine pedigree: Jonathan David, sharpened by his Juventus move, gives them a striker who finishes the half-chances tournaments turn on, while Stephen Eustáquio dictates tempo from the base of midfield with a passing range honed at Porto.

Everything still flows through Alphonso Davies. The Bayern man is the marquee name, a left flank that doubles as a runway, and his overlaps with Tajon Buchanan give Canada a transition game few in this group can live with. Behind them, Ismaël Koné screens and Moïse Bombito carries the ball out of defence, lending the side a modern, front-foot identity built on pace and vertical passing rather than possession for its own sake.

The storyline writes itself: a co-host nation, playing a World Cup partly on home soil, desperate to bury the memory of a pointless 2022 campaign. Get out of the group and the doubters fall silent for good.