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Why is Canada Trailing Behind in Men's Soccer? Episode 5: The German Model

Earlier in September, another Canadian journey to the world's biggest sporting event, the men's soccer World Cup, came to an end. Canada failed to progress to the final qualifying round trailing behind Mexico and Honduras. Being placed in an embarrassing 104th position in FIFA's national teams' ranking, Canada needs to analyze the reasons for failure. This is the fifth and final episode of a series based on a year-long investigation trying to answer one question: Why is Canada doing so bad at men's soccer?

The Final Episode: How the Germans did it?

Many would argue that the German national team's high sense of teamwork was their main strength in winning the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.