The Canada men's national soccer team represents Canada in international soccer competitions at the senior men's level. They are overseen by the Canadian Soccer Association and compete in the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF).

Their most significant achievements are winning the 1985 CONCACAF Championship to qualify for the 1986 FIFA World Cup and winning the 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup to qualify for the 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup. Canada also won a gold medal in the 1904 Summer Olympics.

Soccer was being played in Canada with the Dominion Football Association (1877) and Western Football Association (1880) acting as precursors to the modern-day Canadian Soccer Association. In 1885, the WFA sent a representative team to New Jersey to take on a side put forth by the American Football Association, the then-unofficial governing body of the sport in the United States. In an unofficial friendly, Canada defeated their hosts 1–0 in East Newark, New Jersey. The American team won 3–2 in a return match one year later. In 1888, a team represented the WFA in a tour of the British Isles, earning a record of nine wins, five draws, and nine losses. The squad comprised 16 Canadian-born players with the only exception being tour organizer David Forsyth, who had immigrated to Canada one year after his birth.

Canada ( /ˈkænədə/) is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Spanning over 9,900,000 km² (3,800,000 sq mi), Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, and its common border with the United States is the longest land border in the world.

The land that is now Canada has been inhabited for millennia by various Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French colonial expeditions explored, and later settled, along the region's Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy; the Canada Act 1982 severed the vestiges of legal dependence on Britain.

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. At the turn of the 21st century, the game was played by over 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field of grass or green artificial turf, with a goal in the middle of each of the short ends. The object of the game is to score by driving the ball into the opposing goal.

In general play, the goalkeepers are the only players allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms (unless the ball is carried out of play, where the field players are required to re-start by a throw-in of the game ball), while the field players typically use their feet to kick the ball into position, occasionally using their torso or head to intercept a ball in midair. The team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. If the score is tied at the end of the game, either a draw is declared or the game goes into extra time and/or a penalty shootout, depending on the format of the competition. The Laws of the Game were originally codified in England by the Football Association in 1863 and have evolved since then. Association football is governed internationally by FIFA - Fédération Internationale de Football Association (English: International Federation of Association Football), which organises the FIFA World Cup every four years.

Pedro Miguel Salgadinho Pacheco de Melo (born 27 June 1984), known as Pacheco, is a Portuguese-born Canadian footballer who plays for C.D. Santa Clara as a defensive midfielder.

Born in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores, Pacheco began his football career in the regional leagues, playing with Vitória Clube do Pico da Pedra. In the following year, he moved to arguably the best team in the territory, C.D. Santa Clara, but only appeared in two second division matches in the 2003–04 season.

After three seasons playing in the third level, with two clubs from Azores (S.C. Lusitânia and C.D. Operário), Pacheco returned to Santa Clara, still playing in division two, and began appearing regularly for the first team, starting a total of 26 times during two seasons.

In the last minute of the 2009 August transfer window, Pacheco moved to the island of Madeira, signing with C.D. Nacional. He made his top flight debut on 5 October, playing one minute in the club's 2–0 home win against Vitória de Guimarães, but could only appear in eight official matches during his first year (two in the domestic league cup and one in the UEFA Europa League – 15 minutes of the 5–1 home routing of FK Austria Wien in the group stage).

Jevohn Shepherd (born April 8, 1986) is a Canadian professional basketball player, currently playing for Zorg en Zekerheid Leiden of the Dutch Basketball League.

Shepherd attended West Hill Collegiate Institute in Toronto.

Shepherd played NCAA Division I college basketball at the University of Michigan. He played four years off the bench for the team. As a senior captain of the team, he helped the team to a second round appearance in the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.

After graduation, Shepherd signed with the Halifax Rainmen of the Premier Basketball League. He averaged 8.5 points per game in eleven games for the Rainmen. Following the season, Shepherd signed with German second tier team Giro-Live Ballers Osnabrück. In March 2011 he signed with Skyliners Frankfurt in Germany where he averaged 4.7 points and 2.1 rebounds in 15 games. On July 22, 2011 Shepherd signed for Zorg en Zekerheid Leiden in the DBL.

Shepherd has represented Canada Basketball at various levels of competition. He first played with a Canadian squad at the 2005 and 2007 World University Games, helping the team to a surprise bronze medal in the latter competition. He was called to the senior national team for the first time at the 2010 FIBA World Championship.