Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic

He only has one full professional season under his belt.

He's mostly played, you know, academy football to this point.

Had a cup of coffee with Fulham a couple of seasons ago.

But to his credit, whenever Jesse Marshall is called upon him, he's been excellent.

Like Gold Cup, he really put in some good performances last summer.

Throughout the fall, while Blombido has been hurt for a while, we saw a lot of good from DeFugio this week.

You know, we're two weeks out from a World Cup.

He's arguably been Canada's best player across these friendlies.

As for the second question, we don't know, because obviously playing Uzbekistan and Ireland and these sorts of tune-up families is a big difference between playing Bosnia in front of a sold-out home crowd, hopefully, for a home World Cup.

It's just such different stakes.

And you don't know how you're going to react from it.

But what I will say, given what he's shown, he seemed to have this strong mental makeup.

Like he seems to be someone who's kind of unafraid of these sorts of big occasions.

So I feel relatively confident that he'll do well.

But like you mentioned, he's 20.

You just don't know how that first showing is going to go on a big stage.

So it's obviously a bit.

maybe at least from an outside perspective.

You're looking at him and then a center back in Derek Cornelius who hadn't played a whole lot at the end of the season.

You think, okay, that's maybe not fully ideal, but we're going to have to bank on it because that's kind of where things are at for Canada.