The Canadian Soccer Association has accepted the resignation of men’s national-team coach Stephen Hart.

“I think I have six months left on my contract and I have to really sit down and think about this,” said Hart. “Personally I did my best but with this result I don’t think the country’s fans will forgive me.”

But, once the feelings from this loss subside, we will look back at the game that truly cost Canada its chance at the Hex. And that was the June 0-0 draw at home to Honduras.

It was suffragist Nellie McClung who uttered one of the most famous lines in Canadian history “Never retract, never explain, never apologize--get the thing done and let them howl.” That statement could apply to Sinclair.

After a bright start with a 2-1 win over the United States, Canada’s U-20 squad has now lost two in a row at the Marbella Cup in Spain.

"That's a good question," responded Occean when asked what happened. "I think in the moment we want to score more goals and want to get the ball back and I lightly pushed the goalkeeper, then red card. So that's rough, that's kind of rough. That's poor refereeing, really poor refereeing."

"We could've at least scored seven goals today, we had so many chances," said Atiba Hutchinson. "There could've been a lot more. Players kind of had their heads down a little bit because we know we could've had more goals."

And maybe this is the problem with sport today — we have become far too quick to judge athletes who are frustrated when they lose. As journalists, we are such hypocrites — we want our subjects and interviews to give us as much colour as they can, to be as honest and emotional as possible, then, after the stories run, we go off and say “(s)he shouldn’t have said that to the media.”

“He’s a very technical player,” Saler said of Dosanjh. “You can’t let him have space. You can’t let him use his skill. We have to be able to take away his time and space.”

Coach Nick Dasovic’s men lost the match after midfielder and Vancouver Whitecap Bryce Alderson was sent off, and then Azerbaijan got a late penalty-kick winner.