Maxime Crepeau is Canada’s goalkeeper at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, taking the net for the co-hosts while Milan Borjan is not in the tournament setup. The move marks a clear change for a team that once leaned on Borjan for years.
Crepeau, who plays for Orlando City in Major League Soccer, is holding down the goal for Canada these days as the World Cup gets underway on home soil. For a host nation, the choice lands with extra weight because the position has shifted away from a familiar face and toward a new one at the moment the spotlight is brightest.
Borjan was a staple of Team Canada for more than a decade and earned 80 caps, making him one of the most familiar figures in the program’s recent history. He last suited up internationally in 2023, then spent 2024 with Al-Riyadh in the Saudi Pro League, where he most recently finished a season. His absence from the World Cup group is not a footnote; it is the central change in the story of Canada’s goalkeeping at this tournament.
That omission also underlines how abruptly the handoff arrived. Borjan had been Canada’s regular goalkeeper for more than a decade, but he aged out of the setup just a bit early for this year’s tournament, leaving the country to move forward with Crepeau at the exact time it is co-hosting the World Cup. The shift leaves a long run of national-team experience on the sideline while the next chapter starts in goal.
What comes next is simple enough and still consequential: Canada plays on with Crepeau as the man between the posts, and every result will be judged against the one position that changed most visibly. For Borjan, the question is not whether he mattered to Canada — 80 caps already answer that — but how the program chose to pass that responsibility to someone else just before the tournament began.
