When Canada scores, the terrace of Café Olimpico in Montreal explodes. Cups spill on tables, strangers hug each other. In this institution in the cosmopolitan Mile End district, it is impossible to find a place to sit when the Reds are playing. Since June 6, football has achieved a feat here: making us forget, for a few weeks, hockey, the national sport.
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