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Shola Jimoh didn't seem especially striking when he began training with the Canadian men's national soccer team for the first time this week. Small, quiet, just 16 years old, he walked onto the field looking like a boy among men.
Canada head coach Jesse Marsch has summoned 19 players, including York United FC teenager Shola Jimoh, to a camp in Toronto ahead of the full men's team getting together for the two-legged CONCACAF Nations League quarterfinal later this month against Suriname.
Ninety minutes before the Canadian men took the field for their friendly against Panama on Tuesday night in Toronto, they took the field alone, facing only the wind. It whipped in from the north, funnelling through BMO Field, before running fast under a knife-grey sky, out over the lake.
In tough conditions against a physical opponent, Canada found a way to win Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Kevin Blue, Canada Soccer's CEO and general secretary, called the players on the men's and women's national teams "our biggest resource." How to make the most of them sits at the top of his unenviable to-do list.
After 10 games staged in Europe and the U.S., Canada coach Jesse Marsch is getting his first real taste of what lies ahead 20 months from now when the 2026 World Cup kicks off.
Brendan Rodgers could be dealt another injury blow in the wake of their Dortmund drubbing with Alistair Johnston facing a spell on the sidelines.