In the world of football, there are few things that bring out the vibrancy of the game like rivalries. Whether these rivalries are cross-town derbies like the 'Old Firm' in Glasgow, or battles on the national level like Spain’s ‘El Clasico’, there is an indescribable importance that accompanies these type of matches. In North America, this sentiment is no different, but for perhaps the first time in modern history, its Canada’s game-of-games in the spotlight: Montreal Impact vs Toronto FC.
Hidden within the United States and Canada’s adolescent soccer landscape is a rivalry that has the fire and tension of a hundred-year derby, a contest which didn’t start in soccer, but serves only as its latest, and arguably most heated outlet.