Corso Italia

Corso Italia: In the T-dot, city of immigrants, national hopes will rise and fall with every match result. There will be spontaneous motorcades with outbursts of honking and proud flag-waving on the Danforth and Corso Italia . And, most importantly for armchair followers, sustenance will come over a brew and a daily diet of the medias merciless examinations of the stars, the strategies and the fallen, according to NOW. The beautiful game was definitely not a sporting option for a football-starved kid just off the boat from Germany. The military had shipped my Canadian stepfather to Petawawa, so my mother and I followed into our new life in, unbek nst to me, a world without my all-consuming obsession and The soccer faithful have counted down the days to the inaugural kick-off of World Cup Brazil 2014. From here on in, its 32 days of the best against the best stroking the ball on impeccable lawns of shiny new stadia from Manaus in the heart of the Amazon rainforest to Rio, the samba capital, in the quadrennial fix of football magic. Microscopic scrutiny of the world game is a tradition for most of the planet, but in the Great White North this wasnt always so. Take it from an ancient soccer immigrant who came to these shores during the time of the great Canadian soccer wasteland, long before soccer moms and house leagues. You couldnt find soccer and Canada in the same sentence, let alone on TV. Fuggedaboutit. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.