Cyle Larin

Cyle Larin... soccer family (brother Elijah, sister Casandra)... his mother Patricia Larin was born in Montréal, QC, CAN... his father was born in Clarendon, JAM... while grew up playing hockey, basketball and soccer... he was seven years old when he started playing soccer at Brampton YSC... growing up, favourites included Didier Drogba, Chelsea FC...

represented Canada at the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022... Concacaf champion (first place in 2021-22 Concacaf Final Round of FIFA World Cup Qualifiers)... won a Concacaf Silver Medal with Canada (2022-23 Nations League)... Concacaf semifinalist (2021)... represented Canada at one CONMEBOL Copa América (fourth place at USA 2024)... Canada’s joint top goalscorer across FIFA World Cup Qualifiers in 2015 and 2016 (four goals in 10 international matches)... Concacaf and Canada’s top goalscorer across FIFA World Cup Qualifiers in 2021 and 2022 (13 goals in 16 international matches)...

in Spain with RCD Mallorca, a Copa del Rey finalist in 2023-24... in Turkey with Beşiktaş JK, a Süper Lig winner (2020-21) and Turkish Cup winner (Türkiye Kupası 2021)... in Belgium with Club Brugge KV, a Supercoupe de Belgique winner (2022)...

featured in a Canada record crowd of 54,798 spectators at Vancouver’s BC Place on 25 March 2016, the largest crowd ever for a Canadian national team event of any sport ever played in Canada (Canada lost 3-0 to Mexico in a FIFA World Cup Qualifiers match)... part of the Canada Soccer team that met Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on 15 November 2021 ahead of their FIFA World Cup Qualifiers match one day later in Edmonton (a surprise visit by the Prime Minister at a training session)...

about his scoring prowess as a rookie, he told Major League Soccer in 2015 that, “it’s like instinct when you go on the field: all your focus is on scoring”... said in 2017 on Yahoo! Sports, his mom “sacrificed a lot for me; she gave up a lot and worked very hard to keep me going”... said Bobby Smyrniotis in 2017, “he had a special mentality... he was very astute, asked a lot of the right questions in a soft-spoken manner and concentrated on his own ability, working every day to get better”...