Growing up in England, Luc de Fougerolles’ home was filled with tennis, not soccer, balls. The Fulham FC under-21 center back’s father, Jean, littered their home with the small green objects to help his three sons get comfortable kicking the ball. It was a practice Jean used himself, an ocean away in Montreal.
While Luc will join Canada’s senior men’s team for the first time for their upcoming friendly against Japan, his ties to the country started long before he was born.
Living a few blocks from the Montreal Forum in the 1970s, Jean de Fougerolles wanted to be professional hockey.