Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 13/NASL Week 9 31 May 2015 Ouimette now has five appearances, four of them starts, for the Red Bulls. He’s played a total of 412 minutes. And that’s significantly more minutes this season than — ahem — all of the Canadians combined on the Impact roster.
Schmidt’s super show propels Canada to win — but it also serves as pre-World Cup warning 29 May 2015 The Sophie Schmidt show was good enough to beat England. She scored a fantastic goal from just outside the penalty area, had a free kick fly just inches over the bar, and had a good attempt off a short-corner set piece.
Canadian stalemate: Fury shuts out Eddies’ NASL-leading offence 29 May 2015 “Escape” is the appropriate word, because FCE keeper John Smits, making his second start in a row, made two outstanding point-blank second-half saves, to give the Eddies their first clean sheet of the season — in Cup or NASL play.
Canada’s anti-Blatter vote may be the most significant of them all 28 May 2015 During his reign as president of FIFA, Sepp Blatter has made the Canadian Soccer Association one of his favourite federations.
FCE injury update: Edward available for Ottawa trip, Ameobi listed as day-to-day 27 May 2015 Coach Colin Miller said that Ameobi is officially listed as day-to-day, and is undergoing a scan to assess the severity of the injury to his foot.
Traffic stop: NASL suspends Davidson, distances itself from disgraced superagency 27 May 2015 The North American Soccer League 2.0 and Brazil-based superagency Traffic Sports had been joined at the hip since the league was formed by rebel USL-team owners back in 2010.
FIFA says it is cooperating with U.S. investigators, is an “injured party” 27 May 2015 In a release issued by FIFA, the headline states that the world football organization an "injured party." Basically, FIFA is telling the world that it's a victim.
Fallout from FIFA arrests might be felt in Canada 27 May 2015 Trying to predict the aftermath of Tuesday’s FIFA arrests is like trying to gather up all the buckshot that’s been sprayed out of a cannon.
Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 12/NASL Week 8 24 May 2015 Off the field, there was some good news as well. FCE’s Allan Zebie, who looks to have claimed a starting fullback spot after making the jump from the academy to the first team this past off-season, was signed to a contract extension that keeps him with the Eddies till 2017. Zebie is also rocketing up the Canadian minutes-played charts.
It “could have been 9-6”: Eddies win high-scoring affair, but Smits named man of the match 24 May 2015 It’s not often when there are six goals in a game — and the winning team scores four of them — that a goalkeeper is named the man of the match.