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Soccer has been one of the many popular recreational sports in Canada and has overtaken hockey as the sport with the most registered players in Canada for the past two decades. In 2005, there were 543,390 registered hockey players in Canada compared to 841,466 soccer players. Professional soccer is considerably less visible than contemporary sports when it comes to media coverage. However, the Canadian National Women's Team is one of the best in the world, and has benefitted from a surge in youth participation. Canada was the host of the inaugural FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship in 2002, and finished a surprising second to the USA . Canada's Men have only made it once to the FIFA World Cup . They qualified for the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico , but in the tournament the Canadian side failed to score a single goal, were eliminated in the first round, and finished last in the overall standings. In 2000, Canada stunned the continent by taking home the CONCACAF Gold Cup , giving their backers cause to hope for better times to come. The high point of Canadian soccer history was on September 14 , 1985 , at King George V Park in St. John's, Newfoundland when over 13,000 people witnessed Canada 's 2-1 victory over Honduras , which qualified the Canadians for their first World Cup (at Football World Cup 1986 , Mexico). There is a long history of soccer in Canada. The first game played under modern rules took place in , and Vancouver Whitecaps . The governing body of soccer in Canada is the Canadian Soccer Association . The league in Europe with the largest content of Canadian footballers is the Football League Championship , in England . Tromsø is the only premier club in Europe (Norway) with three Canadians in its team. Haugesund , also in Norway, has four Canadians plying their trade there. In the summer of 2007, Canada was host to the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The final was held in front of 20,000 people at the National Soccer Stadium in Toronto. between Argentina and Czech Republic, with Argentina winning the game by a score of 2-1. Organizers say a total of nearly 1.2-million tickets -- a tournament record -- were sold at the three-week-long event with games at Montreal's Olmypic Stadium registering between 40,000 and 50,000 spectators. NOTED CANADIAN SOCCER PLAYERS Women Men
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