After a long journey, Canada have arrived

It's 36 years since the country played on football's biggest stage but inspirational coach John Herdman says his squad are ready. 

HEAD MAN: Canada coach John Herdman nods the ball during training at the World Cup in Doha. Picture: Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Atiba Hutchinson is a long time at it. How long? When he made his Canadian debut in a friendly against their neighbours to the south, the breakout star on the US side was Landon Donovan.

The American striker retired as his country’s greatest ever but very much a fading force two World Cups ago when Jurgen Klinsmann left him out of the final squad for Brazil 2014.