Sunday Soccer is a tradition in Brossard. Your politics, religion, and language don’t matter when you decide to play in Balzac park. French Quebecois, Italian Canadians, WASPs, Black Africans, East Asians and everyone in between has played in the informal games started by the loosely-organized Muslim youth of Brossard.
These games serve as a place to make friends in the normally-sterile social atmosphere in Quebec. I met a lot of my best friends playing here – I even went to Japan with one of them. Games like this are repeated throughout the country – I was even invited to one in Fort McMurray. They are so popular that the Montreal Police’s community relations team realized the importance of this weekly game, and every now and then they have soccer games with teams in Montreal.