Revisiting Canada's starting 11 from the ‘Humiliation in Honduras’
Canada returns to San Pedro Sula this week, and will field a team that bears no resemblance to the side that infamously lost 8-1 in 2012.
It’s a day that will go down in infamy for Canadian soccer fans.
Oct. 16, 2012.
Canada went into its final group stage game of the semifinal round in 2014 Concacaf World Cup qualifying needing only a draw to advance to ‘The Hex.’ Instead, the Reds were drubbed 8-1 by Honduras before a sold out and hostile crowd at San Pedro Sula’s Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano.
