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Edmonton Drillers claim one-game CMISL championship

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Steven Sandor
– 04/22/2012

The Edmonton Drillers held their first practice less than a week ago.

Now, they are the Canadian indoor soccer national champions.

The Drillers headed south to Cowtown, jumped out to a 4-0 haltime lead and held on beat Calgary United FC 6-3 in the one-game Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League season and championship game. The win means that the Drillers will be the officially recognized national champions, and eligible to represent Canada at the next FIFRA world club championships. FIFRA held the inaugural world club championships in Mexico this past winter, with the powerhouse San Diego Sockers taking the title.

“We had two training sessions and this team was put together on a bit of a shoestring,” said Drillers’ coach Kevin Poissant. “We sort of flew by the seat of our pants. But that’s OK.”

The Drillers gathered for the first time Tuesday and trained again on Thursday. But they were up by four goals at halftime.
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Drillers begin preparations Tuesday for CMISL championship on Saturday

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Steven Sandor
– 04/17/2012

Edmonton Drillers vs. Calgary United FC from 2011.

The Edmonton Drillers are playing to be the internationally recognized Canadian champion of indoor soccer on Saturday.

But it’s not like they will show up to the game as a well-oiled machine. In fact, they are holding their first practice on Tuesday night. They will have one more workout Thursday before heading to Calgary’s Genesis Wellness Saturday, where they will contest the Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League final. The winner of that match will be invited to the FIFRA world club championship next season.

This year, both Calgary (the champs) and Edmonton (CMISL runners-up and FIFRA’s second choice) turned down invites, before a team from the University of Sherbrooke volunteered to take the spot — and finished dead last in the field.
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CMISL to have one-game season in 2012

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Steven Sandor
– 03/19/2012

The Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League’s 2012 schedule will feature one game and one game only.

After a trying winter, CMISL president Mel Kowalchuk has confirmed that defending champion Calgary United FC will face the Edmonton Drillers in Cowtown on the weekend of April 21 for the league championship. Kowalchuk said the winner of that game will earn the right to go to Anaheim in October for a North American championship that will feature the top teams from the U.S. and Mexico.

But Kowalchuk expects the indoor league to rebound in 2012-2013 — and could feature as many as five teams.

Last season, just three teams — Calgary, Edmonton and the Winnipeg Alliance — competed in the CMISL schedule. In November of 2011, Alliance owner Tony Pesce confirmed that he would no longer run the team.
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Sherbrooke finally scores some goals, but can’t escape last-place finish at FIFRA championships

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Steven Sandor
– 02/05/2012

The University of Sherbrooke Vert & Or finally found some offence, but it wasn’t enough to keep the team from finishing fourth out of the four-team field at FIFRA world indoor soccer club championship.

After being outscored by a cumulative score of 24-1 over its three round-robin losses, Sherbrooke faced Ecuador’s La Bombonerita in the third-place game. The Ecuadoreans took the match by a 7-6 score.

From the start of the tournament, the Canadian representatives were targeting third place in the inaugural club championship of indoor soccer. Defender Mathieu Prud’homme e-mailed The 11 before the Saturday’s 5-1 round-robin loss to the host Monterrey Flasg, stating “the real target is to win against Ecuador for 3rd place.”
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Sherbrooke scores none, gives up 19 in first two FIFRA matches

By
Steven Sandor
– 02/04/2012

It had the making of a nice feel-good movie: Amateur team from Quebec decides to take on the world.

But this is no Disney movie. More like a Wes Craven film.

In two matches at the FIFRA world club championships, the University of Sherbrooke Vert & Or have yet to score, and have surrendered, cough, 19 goals.

On Friday, the PASL champion San Diego Sockers routed Sherbrooke 15-0. The Sockers have not lost a PASL game since the Christmas season of 2010 and should win the league title again this year. The goals were flying in so fast early in the game, on the poor quality stream from Mexico it was impossible to tell who was doing the damage. Even the San Diego Sockers’ own Facebook page and Twitter feed couldn’t keep up with the goals, promising fans that they’d be update on the stats later in the game.
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Sherbrooke volunteers to represent Canada at world indoor soccer championships

By
Steven Sandor
– 01/31/2012

OK, Canada, a new national indoor soccer champion has been crowned.

Sort of.

After teams from the Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League could not make the trip, the University of Sherbrooke’s Vert & Or team, augmented with selected players from the Quebec Elite Soccer League, has accepted the invite to head down to Mexico and represent our country at FIFRA’s world club championships.

Thus ends the strange saga of how Canada crowned its official national indoor soccer champion.
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Edmonton Drillers on indoor world championship schedule, but they won’t be going

By
Steven Sandor
– 01/26/2012

FIFRA says that the Edmonton Drillers will represent Canada at the new world indoor club soccer championships. The Drillers say no way.

The Drillers, who finished second to Calgary United FC in the Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League, are listed as Canada’s representative in the upcoming club championships, which will take place February 2-5 in Mexico (SEE HERE). FIFRA, which is the governing body for indoor soccer (not futsal — we are talking about the game that has boards) is inviting the national indoor soccer champions from Canada, the United States, Mexico and Ecuador to face each other. The American invitee is the PASL champion San Diego Sockers, which feature former FC Edmonton striker Daniel Antoniuk.

Originally, Calgary, as the recognized Canadian champion, was invited. But CMISL president Mel Kowalchuk confirmed earlier this year that the team would not go; the bubble around the team’s home field had collapsed.

The Drillers confirmed that not only that they won’t be going, but that the FIFRA mention of the team was the first the club had heard of the tourney.
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Canadian champion Calgary United won’t go to world indoor soccer tourney

By
Steven Sandor
– 11/29/2011

Canada’s reigning national indoor soccer champions won’t be going to the inaugural FIFRA world club championships in February.

FIFRA, which is the governing body of arena soccer (indoor soccer with boards, not to be confused with futsal) is planning to hold the first ever world club championships, tentatively set for February in Mexico. Calgary United FC, the reigning champions of the Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League, would be eligible to represent this country.

But CMISL president Mel Kowalchuk confirmed that Calgary won’t go to the tournament.

“Because of the differences in our schedules (the CMISL and the U.S. based Professional Arena Soccer League) it was decided that our champion would not go to Mexico, but instead to a new North American championship next October.”
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Major blow to CMISL: Winnipeg won’t be back in 2012

By
Steven Sandor
– 11/28/2011

The Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League has been dealt a major blow.

Tony Pesce, president of the Winnipeg Alliance, has confirmed that the team won’t play this season — and won’t come back at all unless its travel costs can be eased.

“Unless other teams are brought in that are much closer in travel the Alliance will not come back,” wrote Pesce in an e-mail to The 11. “I am very grateful to all my friends and associates in business who sponsored close to $60,000 to the Alliance. Operational costs are too high.”
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Canadian teams not on PASL’s schedule for 2011-12; new championship format announced

By
Steven Sandor
– 10/18/2011

The Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League hasn’t finalized its schedule for the upcoming season — or even the number of teams it will have in January, 2012. But it knows that its relationship with the U.S.-based Professional Arena Soccer League will be changing.

The PASL announced its schedule earlier this week — and with it came the revelation that there are no interconference games scheduled with CMISL teams. In the preceding years, PASL teams have traveled to Canada — and vice versa — for games that count in the standings for each league.

And, the PASL will not hold its North American Championships this season. Instead, the league will hold its own championship game.

Last year’s edition of the North American Champiopnships saw the champions of the Mexican League and the CMISL join the PASL champs in Cincinnati to determine a North American championship.
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