Central America has a distinct odor. The smell of burning fossil fuels, mainly. The humidity wafts it towards your nose. Those pollutants are washed away by rain storms that form above mountains east of El Salvador's capital city, where Canada's men's soccer team arrived Sunday evening. To the west of San Salvador lies an active volcano, towering over the city, sandwiching the 45,000-seat Estadio Cuscatlan, the site of Tuesday night's World Cup qualifier. After arriving via an 10-hour charter flight from Vancouver, the Canadians boarded a bus that navigated a narrow, curvy, four-lane highway before the half-hour drive came to an end at the heavily-barricaded Intercontinental Hotel. The walls...
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