HOUSTON — As the 2026 World Cup enters its final weeks, FIFA has already begun returning stadiums to their previous uses. It’s an incredibly quick process, stripping away branding and restoring the North American sporting cathedrals to their usual glory.
Amid the cleanup on Saturday in Houston, where Morocco advanced to the quarterfinals with a 3-0 win against Canada, a single Canadian flag remained on the floor of NRG Stadium. It was a small paper one, the type given to new Canadians at citizenship ceremonies, and sat discarded, somehow missed by the cleaners.
