‘Don’t wait four more years’: World Cup co-hosts Canada offer Italy fans free shirt swap

• Canada Soccer holding jersey exchange in Toronto

• Italy failed to qualify for finals after playoff defeat

Italian football fans are being encouraged to put their national team’s World Cup 2026 qualification failure behind them – by backing co-hosts Canada instead.

Canada Soccer, the national governing body for the sport, are offering a jersey swap on Saturday for fans in Toronto’s Little Italy district. “Dear Italian soccer fans, Don’t wait four more years. Swap your jersey for Canada,” read a post on X.