‘Ottawa’ Canada Returns to Honduras with 8-1 Loss Still Fresh
Amid untold humiliation and condemnation, ex-Canadian coach Stephen Hart took refuge inside a Honduran watering hole four years ago.
A post-game flight delay prevented Canada’s men’s soccer team from immediately exiting San Pedro Sula with hardly a trace of dignity.
Canada’s players aimlessly roamed Ramon Villeda Morales Airport in the wake of their jaw-dropping 8-1 World Cup qualifying back in 2012.
But former Canadian midfielder Terry Dunfield asked his mentor to join him at the airport pub — probably the best way to immediately ease massive disappointment.
“We pretty much just sat there and I bought Stephen a beer,” Dunfield recalled to the Toronto Sun ahead of Friday’s World Cup qualifier back here in Honduras. “We just looked at each other.”
Not much was said. Nothing needed to be following a result so utterly depressing it forced Hart to announce his resignation inside a dark and dank and disgusting Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano that