David Wotherspoon’s first call-up to the Canadian men’s national team has been two years in the making. That’s when the Perth, Scotland-born midfielder first made his intentions to play for les rouges known and thus started a long series of applications and paperwork.
Wotherspoon, who represented Scotland at the youth level, qualified to play for Canada through his mother, who was born in the country. He didn’t really think much of it, however, until he heard the story of Scott Arfield who had made the switch from Scotland to Canada himself.
The 28-year-old Wotherspoon, who plays for St.