Canada’s new offside rule has already led to a goal: ‘That’s what fans like’

Arsène Wenger’s daylight offside proposal is on trial in the Canadian Premier League. Could broad adoption be next?

When Alejandro Díaz scored, he did not realize he was making history.

It was only hours after his club’s 2-2 draw with the Halifax Wanderers, a hard-fought match in which the Pacific FC striker fired the opening salvo with a left-footed volley in the Wanderers’ six-yard box, that he learned that, with his goal, Díaz became the first Canadian Premier League (CPL) player to score as a result of the so-called daylight offside rule – which, in turn, made him the first professional player anywhere to claim the honour.