Rory Smith subs off this week for James Wagner, who will be reporting on the United States men’s national team around its World Cup qualifying match at Canada on Sunday. By most measuring sticks, Dwayne De Rosario enjoyed a successful career in soccer. He played 14 seasons in Major League Soccer, earning a most valuable player award, a league scoring title and collecting four M.L.S. But in De Rosario’s mind, there will always be a hole in his résumé: He never fulfilled his childhood dream of reaching the World Cup. “I’ve always said that if I played in one World Cup game and I retired, I would have been done,” De Rosario, 43, said in a phone interview this week.

Source: thestar January 29, 2022 00:24 UTC