New Town signing Jason De Vos will win his 46th full Canada cap this evening when he captains his side in the second leg of their World Cup qualifier against Belize in Ontario.

Canada are 4-0 up from the first leg and are all but certain to progress to the semi-final round as winners of their two-team group.

In their semi-final group they will meet the winners of Group 5 (Cayman Islands, Cuba, Costa Rica), Group 6 (Aruba, Surinam, Guatemala) and Group 7 (Antigua & Barbuda, Netherlands Antilles, Honduras).

The semi-final match dates are as follows: August 18th, September 4th/5th, September 8th, October 9th/10th, October 13th and November 17th.

The top two from each semi-final group will go through to the final qualifying stage, made up of one group of six teams, the matches on these dates (all 2005): February 9th, March 26th/27th, March 30th, June 4th/5th, June 8th, August 17th, September 3rd/4th, September 7th, October 8th/9th and October 12th.

The top three teams in the group will automatically qualify for the finals, but the side in fourth will face a play-off with the winners of a knock-out game from the Asian qualifying region.

Canada's World Cup campaign looks likely to force De Vos to miss a significant number of Town games during 2004/05 and even some in 2005/06.

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