Jesse Marsch couldn’t take his eyes off the TV from his home just outside of Pisa, Italy, in the fall. Like so many Canadians, he was glued to the Toronto Blue Jays’ run to the 2025 World Series.
Watching those games in the middle of the night, and seeing the scenes from Toronto and across Canada, he couldn’t help but have a vision. That run, as much as it enthralled the nation, was nothing compared to what a World Cup could do.
