Pugh: NASL Ottawa to have coach by end of March, stadium on schedule 5 Feb 2013 While the name hasn’t been picked, Pugh said many of the suggestions were linked to the city’s logging heritage and its closeness to the river. Rivermen, Loggers, Voyageurs are all names that came in. And football purists also suggested names like Ottawa City, Rovers and Rangers.
Canadian national teamers look forward to the day NWSL expands north of the border 5 Feb 2013 While the four members of the Canadian women’s national team who were in Edmonton Monday will all soon head Stateside to report to their NWSL teams, they still dream of playing pro soccer in their home and native land.
FC Edmonton: Porter won’t be with the team in 2013 4 Feb 2013 Kyle Porter is on trial with D.C. United. But, if that doesn't pan out, the Canadian forward no longer has an FC Edmonton contract offer as a fallback position.
Payne does best he can with deal to unload TFC’s panic buy of Hassli 4 Feb 2013 Toronto FC president and GM Kevin Payne made the best of a bad situation by dealing Designated Player Eric Hassli to FC Dallas for a conditional second-round pick in the 2014 SuperDraft.
CSL finally goes public: Says it still has CSA sanction 3 Feb 2013 The Canadian Soccer League says that it is still sanctioned by the Canadian Soccer Association.
Whitecaps’ early preseason does little to clear a muddy goalkeeping picture 3 Feb 2013 While there isn’t a coach or manager in the world who doesn’t want to see his or her team’s defence prevent as many scoring chances as it can, it might serve the Whitecaps to see their keepers’ feet put to the fire.
Schallibaum: Impact needs to excel after the 70-minute mark 2 Feb 2013 “We can’t forget that games are often decided after the 70-minute mark,” Schallibaum continued. "I saw some good things out there today but also a few not so good, perhaps because of fatigue, but we still have time to work on them.”