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First Touch ’26 - Haiti
No team at this World Cup carries a heavier off-field burden, or a purer sense of joy, than Haiti. In this World Cup Capsule, David Gass tells the story of the Grenadiers’ impossible run from a country in deep political and humanitarian crisis, where the national team hasn’t played a home game since 2021 and even the coach has never set foot in Haiti during qualifying.
We go back to 1974 and Emmanuel Sanon’s iconic goal that ended Dino Zoff’s record shutout streak, then fast-forward through earthquake-era heartbreak, Gold Cup parties, and a qualifying campaign where every “home” game was on…
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