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By Matthew Couden
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After a thrilling 1-0 win over South Africa in the Round of 32 on Sunday, Canada is moving on to the next round of the FIFA World Cup for the first time in the country's history.
Stephen Eustaquio was the hero in the team's Knockout Phase game, scoring the game-winning goal late in stoppage time to send Canada to the Round of 16.
"Everything I do is for my family, my parents, for my girlfriend, for my daughter, for my brother, for my friends back home. For all of them," an emotional Eustaquio said immediately after the win.
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"We worked a lot to get this victory. We really wanted to give this win to all the Canadians and we just kept believing. We kept pushing, and I think we couldn't have imagined it any other way," he told Fox Sports.
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Eustaquio called it an amazing goal, indicating he "put a little bit of power on it" and was happy to see it go to the back of the net.
While Eustaquio initially seemed emotional and excited about his game-winning goal and the victory, he also indicated later that the team remains "calm" following Sunday's Round of 32 win.
"I feel very happy, but at the same time I'm very calm. I think we performed well. There were a couple of moments that South Africa had the ball, they were creating us a lot of problems, but I think on set pieces, on transition, we were getting there, and we never stopped believing, and I think that the goal was something we really deserved at the end of the game," he told Fox Sports' Katie Shanahan.
"I tell these guys all the time, 'When we shoot we have to give everything we have, like our life depends on it,' and I think that's what I did," he said of his game-winning goal.
He reiterated that despite Canada making history with this win on Sunday, the "team is very calm" as they realize they'll face a tough opponent in the Round of 16. Eustaquio indicated they wanted to let their next opponent, either Morocco or the Netherlands, see their game and feel they'd get "the hardest team that their gonna face in this World Cup."
Morocco and the Netherlands battle for that spot in the Round of 16 on Monday at 9 p.m. ET, with Morocco currently the slight favorite to advance.
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