FC Edmonton signs four players 25 Feb 2011 FC Edmonton has announced the signings of four players who spent the 2010 season with the club. Dutch goalkeeper Rein Baart and Alberta products Shaun Saiko, Kyle Yamada and Michael Cox have all signed for the 2011 NASL season.
Poor defending costs TFC in loss to Dynamo 25 Feb 2011 In a game filled with trialists, some old problems haunted Toronto FC. Despite twice taking the lead, TFC lost 3-2 to the Houston Dynamo Thursday in their opening match of the preseason Walt Disney World Pro Soccer Classic in Orlando, Fla.
It’s all in the timing; women announce boycott is off 25 Feb 2011 What was really interesting about the statement is that it hit the wire on Thursday evening — the middle of the night in Europe. That means that all of the players and coaching staff were well past curfew — and in bed. When the news hit, there were no players on Twitter. After all, every Canadian soccer journalist has them all on his or her Twitter feed. Was it by accident or orchestrated by the women’s PR team at Fleishman-Hillard Canada?
Great day for former TFC players 25 Feb 2011 Thursday was a good day for ex-Toronto FC players. Maurice Edu, the No. 1 pick in the 2007 SuperDraft and rookie of the year that same season, scored the goal that sent Rangers through to the final 16 of the Europa Cup a minute and a half into stoppage time against Sporting Lisbon.
Calgary United sweeps doubleheader without playing a game 25 Feb 2011 The aborted travel plans of the Kitsap Pumas have greatly influenced the Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League race. Calgary United will see it’s record go from 5-4 to 7-4 this weekend without having to kick a ball. This weelend’s scheduled home Professional Arena Soccer League interconference doubleheader against the Pumas was cancelled, after the Seattle-area team’s travel plans fell apart.
Canadian teens off to CONCACAF final 25 Feb 2011 Canada got an early goal, and then held on. Check that. Held on desperately in a 1-0 win over Panama in the first of two semifinals at the U-17 CONCACAF Championship in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Canada, which had already qualified for the U-17 World Cup in Mexico by making it to the semifinals of the competition, faces the winner of the United States-Jamaica semifinal, being staged later Friday.