in a 4-1 loss to Croatia.<\/a><\/p>\nOther players coming off injuries with their club teams included forward Promise David, who just had hip surgery for a ruptured tendon in February, and defender Moise Bombito, who has not played for the national team since breaking his leg in a 2-2 draw with Monaco in October. <\/p>\n
Midfielder Jacob Shaffelburg also made the roster although he also injured his hamstring earlier this month. Marsch said Shaffelburg has progressed faster than expected. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ve had a pretty good idea of who our core group is for a while. The real X factor in all these decisions was just trying to determine a month ago, two weeks ago, a week ago, last night, which players are going to be healthy, and who can we project to be really ready to be close to 100% and in the form of their life going into this tournament. So, luckily, we\u2019re on track with a lot of guys,\u201d Marsch said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWill everyone be 100% for the Bosnia match? No, that won\u2019t be the case, but we will have a really strong core that will be ready for that match, and we believe we can get stronger as the tournament goes on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marsch has not named a starter between goalkeepers Maxime Cr\u00e9peau and Dayne St. Clair. Both will play in the upcoming friendlies before Marsch makes a decision. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe know what\u2019s coming in terms of a decision and we\u2019re both mature enough to understand our role for the team, whatever the decision is,\u201d Cr\u00e9peau said on the Canadian television broadcast announcing the squad. \u201cWe understand that we\u2019ll be here for one another and for the team on and off the field.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Canadian Squad: <\/p>\n
Goalkeepers: Maxime Cr\u00e9peau (Orlando City), Owen Goodman (Barnsley), Dayne St. Clair (Inter Miami).<\/p>\n
Defenders: Mo\u00efse Bombito (Nice), Derek Cornelius (Rangers), Alphonso Davies (Bayern Munich), Luc de Fougerolles (Dender EH), Alistair Johnston (Celtic), Alfie Jones (Middlesbrough), Richie Laryea (Toronto), Niko Sigur (Hajduk Split), Joel Waterman (Chicago Fire).<\/p>\n
Midfielders: Ali Ahmed (Norwich City), Tajon Buchanan (Villarreal), Mathieu Choini\u00e8re (LAFC), Stephen Eust\u00e1quio (LAFC), Marcelo Flores (Tigres UANL), Isma\u00ebl Kon\u00e9 (Sassuolo), Liam Millar (Hull City), Jonathan Osorio (Toronto), Nathan-Dylan Saliba (Anderlecht), Jacob Shaffelburg (LAFC).<\/p>\n
Forwards: Jonathan David (Juventus), Promise David (Royale Union Saint-Gilloise), Cyle Larin (Southampton), Tani Oluwaseyi (Villarreal).<\/p>\n
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AP World Cup coverage: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/fifa-world-cup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alphonso Davies was named to Canada\u2019s World Cup squad on Friday night although it\u2019s too soon to tell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27292,27295,27752,16174,16099,21891,17,12483,27288,27297,1312,27291,6599,27755,11434,21637,28297,27747,27748,27296,28293,28291,388,27287,28300,28295,27301,28299,5380,205,49,28294,27753,28298,28296,28292],"class_list":["post-67409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-alfie-jones","tag-ali-ahmed","tag-alistair-johnston","tag-alphonso-davies","tag-bayern-munich","tag-bosnia-and-herzegovina","tag-canada","tag-canada-national-soccer-team","tag-dayne-st-clair","tag-derek-cornelius","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-jacob-shaffelburg","tag-jesse-marsch","tag-joel-waterman","tag-jonathan-david","tag-jonathan-osorio","tag-juventus-fc","tag-liam-millar","tag-luc-de-fougerolles","tag-marcelo-flores","tag-mathieu-choinire","tag-maxime-crpeau","tag-mexico","tag-moise-bombito","tag-nathan-dylan-saliba","tag-ogc-nice","tag-owen-goodman","tag-paris-saint-germain-fc","tag-richie-laryea","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-stephen-eustquio","tag-tajon-buchanan","tag-tanitoluwa-oluwatimikhin-oluwaseyi","tag-u-s-sassuolo-calcio","tag-villarreal-cf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}