How Scotland’s hosts in Canada are powered up by a Brit abroad

Less than 24 hours after the rugby players of Canada and Scotland have taken their leave, there is another big match on the bill at TD Place.

Atletico Ottawa, the football club founded and owned by the Atletico Madrid powerhouse, host Pacific from Greater Victoria as they bid to build on the commanding lead they have established approaching the halfway point of the Canadian Premier League regular season.

The competition has only been running since 2019, with ‘Ottleti’ joining the party the following year, but already they are a force to be reckoned with. Ottawa were regular-season champions in 2022 and have unabashed ambitions to become the first team to come out on top in both that and the play-off phase in the same campaign.