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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Joe Callaghan in Montreal

Jesse Marsch: ‘We Americans have been inundated with propaganda since we were young’

Canada coach Jesse Marsch touches his ear while looking upward on the touchline
Jesse Marsch led Canada to a last 16 exit at the World Cup this past summer. Photograph: Chris Young/The Canadian Press/AP

Peak leaf hasn’t yet arrived in Montreal but the bursts of gold and butterscotch up on the hill that gave this place its name still mushroom out by the hour.

Sitting in a glass-panelled hotel mezzanine at the foot of Mount Royal, Canada men’s coach Jesse Marsch has his mind on another harvest. When this extended autumnal international window ends, he will decamp to Italy, where the olive crops at his Tuscan villa are ready for reaping.

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