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High stakes, and our 7News team was at the airport this morning when they checked in to fly out, and we spoke with a few of the players about the game:

Dalton Eiley - Member, Belize National Team
"The feeling is great. The team is together. We are happy with everything. We've worked out all the details. Now it's just to go over there and get the job done. Get a draw if possible. A win would be better, but just a draw would be fine enough - come home and seal it."

Danny Jimenez - Member, Belize National Team
"The team is focused. The team is together right now and a lot of love is about and everybody is worked hard and the objective is to go out there and do good and come back with a victory and advance to the next stage. Because we reached far, yes, but this is not where we want to reach. We want to reach to the end. I know Belize on a whole and the fans, the football family is expecting the team to reach as far as we could go and that i what we will do for them."

Woodrow West - Member, Belize National Team
"The team is doing well. I trained with them last night and the spirit is there to move ahead and that's what we want them to understand that the team want to go as far as we could and we are just on game away from the 4th round. That's the aim right now to reach the 4th round and I think it's going to be another history for Belize and that's in the mind of all players - that we want to win against Canada. We know it's going to be a difficult game and it's not easy because Canada is a very good team as well. But we know how we could play ball and with heart and love and unity I think we could pull it off."

Daniel Ortiz
"Their roster is filled with all professional players and where we are we have mostly semi-professionals and a few guys like yourself who has gone out and played with professional teams, but the odds would be in their favor."

Evan Mariano - Member, Belize National Team
"At the end of the day that is true and we can't take that away from them and then on the football its 11 vs 11 and one ball. So the more we could contain the ball, the more position we could keep on the ball and then we keep our formation and the way we've been working out for the last couple of months, I guess we could come out with a victory. I means its 11 vs 11 and we are all men on the field."

Shane Moody Orio - Member, Belize National Team
"We need to know that the level of play we are facing is much different than the last series and the development. What we do, we do respect the Canadian team and I know they respect the Belizean national team. So hopefully we would be able to move forward from there, move forward in the aspects of knowing our strengths, knowing our weakness, knowing when to capitalize and know when to take advantage of specific situations during the series. But again, like I said the most important things is for us to stick to our game plan come Friday and be safe at all times and that's the most important thing."

Elroy Smith - Member, Belize National Team
"We already know it's going to be a hard game. We know that the players from Canada are professional. I think our main key is to go out there focused, well concentrated and try stop any attack that they bring. It will be hard, but I know the team is ready for it. I feel that the defenders worked hard for the last 3 months and so I feel that we could do it."

Deon McCaulay - Member, Belize National Team
"Going to Canada, playing in front of all those fans, there will be pressure. But you have to know how to deal with the pressure."

The team arrives in Toronto late tonight.

Friday's game in Canada will be played at 5:30 Belize time - and you can see it here on Channel 7. The return match will be played at the FFB Stadium in Belmopan on Next week Tuesday, September 8.