Clearly as a whole the canadian players are missing, for lack of a better term, that one-on-one skill. They just don't have the nifty little passes and other little tricks in their repetoire.
How much of that is do to footy not being part of Canadian culture. With hockey, much of that individual skill was developed on the backyard rink or playing shinny after school and on weekends. Unlike many of these other countries footy is not the first thing canadian kids think of when looking to have fun after school or on the weekends so beyond team practices and games very little skill is built up.
Just a theory.
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