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Joe Callaghan at Toronto Stadium

Cyle Larin’s strike unleashes joy and saves Canada from the curse of ‘almost’

Cyle Larin celebrates his goal during Friday’s game against Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cyle Larin celebrates his goal during Friday’s game against Bosnia and Herzegovina. Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images

Ismaël Koné almost passed out. Cyle Larin was almost deafened.

Seventy-eight minutes into a Friday lunchtime where “almost” looked like becoming a Canadian curse, perhaps it was the jarringly definitive nature of that one single, swivelling moment that sparked such an uproarious outpouring of, well, everything.

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