Excerpted from Langley Advance Times:
TWU’s Joel Waterman has a schedule on his wall that used to include an entry for 2026, which is the year when Canada, Mexico and the United States will host the FIFA World Cup, which is held every four years.
Waterman’s goal was to win a spot on the Canada’s men’s national team in time to play that year.
He’s had to alter his goals a bit, thanks to an email that landed a just few days before Christmas, to confirm Waterman has a spot on the national team training camp, and a possible shot at playing in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
Waterman had been told that he was in the running for camp well over a month before that, but it “wasn’t a for-sure thing,” he said.
Then, the message arrived.
“It was a really nice email to get,” Waterman told the Langley Advance Times.
“It’s an amazing feeling.”
Waterman, a former member of Canada Soccer’s national training centre program in B.C., is the first Trinity Western Spartan to take part in a senior men’s camp.
Among his standout accomplishments, in his final season with the Spartans in the fall of 2018, Waterman led TWU to a Canada West silver medal, making first team all-stars in the process.
Read the full article in Langley Advance Times.
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