Le Toux, Whitecaps, beat down FC Edmonton’s brave resistance 10 May 2012 For 75 minutes of Wednesday’s second leg of the club’s Amway Canadian Championship final against the Vancouver Whitecaps, things looked good for FC Edmonton to be Cinderella at the BC Place ball.
10-man TFC eliminates listless Impact from the ACC 10 May 2012 TFC scored its first victory of any sort at BMO Field this season, beating the Impact by a 2-0 score to send the Reds into the Voyageurs Cup final and handing Montreal another disappointing result in the national tournament.
New CSA president Montagliani strikes conciliatory tones 8 May 2012 Victor Montagliani sounded a lot like a man who had just won a political-party nomination.
Montagliani elected as CSA’s new president, but process needs to change 5 May 2012 Victor Montagliani, the odds-on favourite going into this weekend’s Canadian Soccer Association elections, got the support he needed at the Annual General Meeting in Ottawa and is the new president.
Women’s World Cup host-cities announcement is anticlimactic 4 May 2012 As press conferences go, the announcement of Canada’s 2015 Women’s World Cup host cities was about as anticlimactic as they get.
Canada’s U-17 women rout Jamaica in Group A action 4 May 2012 Two days after the Canadian teens throttled Panama by a 6-0 count, they made easy work of Jamaica, winning 4-0 in Guatemala.
Blame FCE’s losses, not City of Edmonton, for poor attendance at Commonwealth Stadium 3 May 2012 The number was painful to read, painful to report. In a concrete monolith of a stadium that’s built to seat more than 60,000, just 2,777 people came to see FC Edmonton play the Vancouver Whitecaps in their first leg of the Amway Canadian Championship semifinal.
FCE learns some tough lessons from the Whitecaps 3 May 2012 “When you see the game, you see the difference in the way we play,” said FCE coach Harry Sinkgraven after the match. “They are more mature, you can see that. In battles, they are stronger. We lost too many individual battles.”
TFC gets stalemate at Olympic Stadium 3 May 2012 Playing to a draw is usually the best a road team can hope for. Toronto FC came out of the first leg of its Amway Canadian Championship encounter with the Montreal Impact having achieved its objective, playing to a scoreless tie and setting the stage for next Wednesday’s second game.
Clarke the author of five goals as Canada routs Panama 3 May 2012 Summer Clarke played just 50 minutes, and it was enough time for her to score three times and set up two more.