Speak to any close observer of Team Canada’s men’s national team and there is one overriding sentiment that they can all agree on: Tajon Buchanan is back.
Buchanan has firmly entrenched himself as one of the locked-in starters under coach Jesse Marsch ahead of next year’s World Cup.
It has only been recently that the Brampton, Ont. product has re-affirmed his position within Canada’s preferred XI. A broken leg at the 2024 Copa America derailed his hopes to crack Inter Milan following a huge move to the Italian giants from Club Brugge of Belgium in January 2024.
Buchanan had shown flashes of what he could do with the Nerazzurri at the back end of the 2023-24 season, but the injury that ended his Copa campaign that summer resulted in a difficult period in Italy, where playing time was har