{"id":619860,"date":"2022-11-26T19:15:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T00:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=619860"},"modified":"2022-11-26T20:12:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T01:12:51","slug":"canadas-ready-for-croatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/11\/26\/canadas-ready-for-croatia\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Ready for Croatia as the Canadians Put It All on the Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PREVIEW<\/strong> \u2013 On Saturday ahead of the second game against Croatia. John Herdman and Stephen Eust\u00e1quio met the media to discuss the upcoming game as Canada&#8217;s ready for Croatia.<\/p>\n<h2>Canada&#8217;s Ready for Croatia at the Khalifa International Stadium<\/h2>\n<p><a id=\"TZNeYQMqS_Rjg72Sx_iVmQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1245031858\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'TZNeYQMqS_Rjg72Sx_iVmQ',sig:'X8nsUy2jXUsyqSZBeS_1lGLe5BNggixjyrhMGu1tDkY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1245031858',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Croatian Head Coach Demands Respect<\/h3>\n<p>It was a week for the dramatic as the media and tabloids were having a field day around <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/11\/26\/john-herdman-post-game-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Herdman&#8217;s post-match comments<\/a> that to the point are making this game way more interesting. Zlatko Dalic who earlier said he didn&#8217;t mind the comment as they were used for motivation but on Sunday he demanded respect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Croatian team deserves respect from everyone,&#8221; Dalic said. &#8220;We have proven that by the way, we&#8217;ve played and with our conduct at the World Cup and since the very beginning we deserve respect and dignity.&#8221; &#8220;We respect everyone equally so we expect our opposing team to respect us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>John Herdman and Stephen Eust\u00e1quio as Canada&#8217;s Ready for Croatia<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;It was an emotional moment,&#8221; Herdman said. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s a learning moment and I was a little bit too honest and I will learn from that one and you keep moving forward.&#8221; &#8220;We earned respect now we have to go take three points and it&#8217;s a do-or-die situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eust\u00e1quio was quick to defend his coach and says that without him Canada would not be on the big stage and his coaching ability led them there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He takes out the best of us,&#8221; Eust\u00e1quio said. &#8220;It&#8217;s the preparations the details and everything that he takes care of that is just unbelievable and we were at a stage where our worry point was Bermuda with all respect were at a different level because of him and we respect what he does and we trust him and we did everything that he wanted us to do and that&#8217;s why we are here and we need to thank him for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>The Backstory of John Herdman and his son and the FIFA World Cup Game<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;There&#39;s real belief built on a foundation.&quot; \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>John Herdman speaks about the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CANMNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CANMNT<\/a> mindset heading into our 2nd match of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@FIFAWorldCup<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeCAN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WeCAN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z8nHMYznMd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/z8nHMYznMd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Canada Soccer (@CanadaSoccerEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadaSoccerEN\/status\/1596599199063162880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/2022\/11\/20\/2022-canmnt-world-cup-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">The 2022 CanMNT World Cup Preview: Looking to Make History<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a bit of a back story as Herdman&#8217;s son, Jay, trained with the team at GNK Dinamo Zagreb so he has made trips to Croatia recently which adds to a very interesting story. On Sunday it will all come down to 90 minutes on the pitch to potentially decide Canada&#8217;s faith at the World Cup. There is obviously a lot of faith in the team as coach Herdman said above.<\/p>\n<p>The game is scheduled for 11:00 AM ET on Sunday morning at the Khalifa International Stadium in Al-Rayyan, Qatar.\u00a0 It can be seen on television live in Canada on TSN and CTV while viewers can also watch it in French on RDS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PREVIEW \u2013 On Saturday ahead of the second game against Croatia. John Herdman and Stephen Eust\u00e1quio met the media to discuss the upcoming game as Canada&#8217;s ready for Croatia. Canada&#8217;s Ready for Croatia at the Khalifa International Stadium Embed from Getty Images Croatian Head Coach Demands Respect It was a week for the dramatic as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3526,"featured_media":619862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9541,161,2132],"tags":[2212,801,9515,9552,8488,3092],"class_list":["post-619860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canmnt","category-international-football","category-world-cup","tag-canada","tag-croatia","tag-john-herdman","tag-stephen-eustaquio","tag-world-cup-2022","tag-zlatko-dalic"],"modified_by":"Raheem Bashir, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}