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FCE’s Miller after loss to RailHawks: “The better team lost tonight”

By
Steven Sandor
– 04/14/2013

FCE's Daryl Fordyce, in white, splits the Carolina defenders.

FCE’s Daryl Fordyce, in white, splits the Carolina defenders.

For the second week in a row, the frame of the goal stood in the way between FC Edmonton and needed goals.

Last week, the Eddies hit the woodwork twice and settled for a 1-1 draw with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in their NASL season opener. On Saturday, it was another two goalposts off of clear scoring chances, and FCE and its supporters can only wonder what could have been, as the Carolina RailHawks opened their renovated new home park with a 2-1 win over the Eddies.

Austin Da Luz scored the opener early in the second half, beating FCE fullback Edson Edward at the post and then bundling home a perfect cross from winger Ty Shipalane, a player who has consistently given the Eddies fits over the past two seasons. Shipalane was able to keep a ball in play and then floated a dangerous cross in from the right side.

Brian Shriver wrapped up the points in the 71st when his perfect 20-yard free kick found the back of the net. Massimo Mirabelli found the net in injury time to get the Eddies back to within a goal.
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Miller: Seven points the target for FCE’s three-game road trip

By
Steven Sandor
– 04/10/2013

Colin Miller

Colin Miller

FC Edmonton coach Colin Miller was happy to get a point on the road in the club’s NASL opener. But he wants more — a lot more — out of the team’s three-game road trip to start the season.

“Seven points, that’s the target I had set for myself,” said Miller Wednsday after the team’s training session in Sunrise, Fla. “That means we have little margin for error.”

The fact that Miller went into this road trip — which continues Saturday with a match against the Carolina RailHawks and concludes in two weekends with a date at the Metrodome with Minnesota United FC — wanting two wins and a draw shows just how much confidence he has in a team that’s lineup has been rebuilt from last year’s last-place finish.

After the 1-1 draw in Fort Lauderdale, the team remained in Florida, training at the same facility in Sunrise that’s often used by various Canadian national teams. Read the rest of this entry »

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Eddies settle for a point in 2013 NASL opener

By
Steven Sandor
– 04/07/2013
Striker Rubens Pinheiro, left, tries to win the ball away from FCE's Wes Knight.

Striker Rubens Pinheiro, left, tries to win the ball away from FCE’s Wes Knight.

In his NASL coaching debut, Colin Miller had to settle for a draw.

David Foley’s laser beam of a shot allowed the host Fort Lauderdale Strikers to salvage a 1-1 with FC Edmonton in their NASL season opener.

And FCE coach Miller can only wonder what if — as a first-half strike from Neil Hlavaty and a late attempt from Shaun Saiko both found the woodwork.

Miller started a FCE lineup that featured only three players who were Eddies in 2012: Keeper Lance Parker, midfielder Saiko and Antonio Rago, moved up from fullback to the midfield for the beginning of the new season. It was a mix of old and new who combined for the goal. In the first half, Saiko floated a ball into the Strikers’ penalty area. There were three Eddies who made runs that caught the Strikers’ backline flatfooted. But it was Knight — the former Whitecap who spent last season in San Antonio — who got his head to the ball, giving Strikers’ keeper Matt Glaeser no chance.
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The Super-Duper NASL spring season preview

By
Steven Sandor
– 04/02/2013

NASL_logo_previewThe 2012 NASL season ended with one of the most exciting finals that either MLS, NASL or USL has seen.

In the second leg of the final, the Tampa Bay Rowdies erased a two-goal first-leg deficit, then held on through extra time with only 10 men. The Rowdies then rode goalie Jeff Attinella as they beat the then-named Minnesota Stars in penalty kicks.

The Stars have changed their name to Minnesota United FC, and Attinella has left for MLS. NASL has now changed formats, and the two-leg finale is now history.

But, as we get ready for this weekend’s kickoff to the NASL spring season, the Rowdies and MUFC are the clear favourites to top the table. Under the new format, the team that wins the spring title will host the winner of the fall title in November’s Soccer Bowl. If the same team wins the spring and fall sessions, then the team with the next-best overall record will be the road team in the final.
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Canadian defender Hamilton not quite a RailHawk yet, but it’s awfully close

By
Steven Sandor
– 04/02/2013

1364860604-paulhamiltonpicApril 13, away to the RailHawks in Cary, N.C.. June 16, home to the RailHawks at Clarke Stadium.

Those two dates on FC Edmonton’s NASL spring-season fixture list now loom a heck of a lot larger, now that the news is out that former Eddie Paul Hamilton is on trial with the RailHawks.

Hamilton confirmed with The11.ca Monday night that a deal has not yet been signed. But Hamilton is in North Carolina and has been working out with the RailHawks.

“A couple of teams had expressed interest to my agent and I,” Hamilton wrote in a statement to The 11.”But with it being so late in preseason, a lot of teams did not have room in their budget for another player. That being said, Carolina had expressed the most interest and invited me to come down.”
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Whitecaps, FC Edmonton discussing more loan deals

By
Steven Sandor and Martin MacMahon
– 03/26/2013

Caleb Clarke needs to get minutes.

Caleb Clarke needs to get minutes.

The mystery player that FC Edmonton coach Colin Miller had hoped would join the team when it moved its training camp to Vancouver likely won’t materialize, after all.

Last week, Miller said that a new player would join the Eddies’ camp when the NASL team moved its operation to Vancouver for the week for a series of friendlies and training sessions on outdoor pitches. That led to speculation that the player in question would be another loan from the Vancouver Whitecaps.

After Tuesday’ 4-2 loss to the Whitecaps in a friendly, Miller confirmed that he and the Whitecaps had discussed sending more players to the Eddies, but those talks ended without producing a new loanee for FCE.

“There’s one or two that we were discussing, but for whatever reason at this moment in time it’s not going to be possible,” said Miller, “but we’ll continue to work with the Whitecaps. We have a fantastic relationship with the club.”
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Nurse believes FC Edmonton can go from worst to first

By
Steven Sandor
– 02/27/2013

Chris Nurse

It might seem like a strange decision. Chris Nurse, in search of another second-division title, came to come to a franchise that finished in last place in the league last season.

“I wanted to be part of a team that will contend for the championship this season,” said the England-born Guyanese national teamer, who split last season between the Carolina RailHawks before making a return to the Puerto Rico Islanders.

Nurse, who was one of the 16 players already named to the FC Edmonton roster on Monday, believes the team has the talent to go from worst to first under new coach Colin Miller. And, he thinks the addition of a number of NASL veterans, including himself, will help push a young, talented squad to new heights.

“Wes Knight, he’s won at this level (got to a final in ’09 with the Whitecaps),” said Nurse at FCE’s training session Tuesday at Commonwealth Fieldhouse. “(Neil) Hlavaty has won a championship. I’ve won a championship at the second-division level. We have done it before and we can win another second-division title. We have players like (Shaun) Saiko and (Paul) Hamilton, who were both league all-stars.”
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Whitecaps give Rennie a happy homecoming with win over RailHawks

By
Steven Sandor
– 02/25/2013

The Vancouver Whitecaps gave coach Martin Rennie a happy homecoming to his olf stomping ground.

Three goals from Camilo — one on a penalty — gave the Whitecaps a comfortable 3-0 preseason win over the NASL’s Carolina RailHawks in Cary, N.C. Sunday. Before coming to Vancouver, Rennie was the RailHawks’ gaffer — and he has created a steady pipeline of talent from his old NASL side to the Whitecaps. And, he brought in former RailHawks Jun Marques Davidson and Matt Watson in at half so they could enjoy some adulation from the home crowd.

Brad Knighton, another former RailHawk, started in goal for the ‘Caps.

While Camilo got the goals, also of note was the performance of forward Corey Hertzog, who drew the first-half penalty that Camilo converted. As well, Hertzog hit the post with an effort later in the first half.
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Cannon or Knighton? Rennie will “wait and see” who starts Whitecaps’ opener against TFC

By
Greg Hutton
– 02/24/2013

Joe Cannon

With the MLS season opener against Toronto FC at BC Place just one week away, Vancouver Whitecaps head coach Martin Rennie used Saturday’s game in the Carolina Challenge Cup as an important opportunity increase his team’s fitness and evaluate the majority of potential starters against a strong Chicago Fire squad in a similar situation.

As such, the Whitecaps could breathe a collective sigh of relief when there was enough of a reprieve from the heavy rains that drenched the Charleston, S.C. region over the past 24 hours to allow the Blackbaud Stadium playing surface to drain effectively.

There was enough of a reprieve in precipitation to allow the surface to drain, but it did make for some sloppy play at times. The end result was a 1-1 stalemate as Vancouver closed its trip to the Lowcountry.

In doing so, the Fire claimed the four-team tournament title with a 2-0-1 mark. The Whitecaps placed second at 1-1-1 mark while the Houston Dynamo and USL Pro side Charleston Battery each finished with one win and a pair of losses.

Darren Mattocks and rookie Kekuta Manneh once again had some good moments, particularly in the early going of a scoreless first half in which the Blue-and-White carried the better of play. In Vancouver’s best opportunity of the opening 45 minutes, a dangerous cross from Y.P. Lee found Daigo Kobayashi crashing the back post, but the sliding Japanese newcomer skied his attempt over the bar.
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Kyle Porter is the top Canadian story from Walt Disney World classic

By
Steven Sandor
– 02/16/2013

Kyle Porter, in FC Edmonton gear

Both Canadian teams were upstaged by a Canadian trialist in the final day of group-stage play at the Walt Disney World Pro Soccer Classic.

Both the Montreal Impact and Toronto FC were overshadowed by Kyle Porter, who went on trial with D.C. United as soon as he finished a two-game stint with the national team. The ex-FC Edmonton man scored on a thunderbolt in the 85th minute to earn DCU a 1-1 draw with the Impact.

Andrea Pisanu, on loan from Bologna, gave the Impact a first-half lead with an audacious overhead kick — the kind of goal that, if it happened in the regular-season, would be an automatic for MLS Goal of the Year consideration.

But, with five minutes left to go, Porter smashed a half-volley from the top of the box into the Impact goal after Hassoun Camara’s poor attempt at a headed clearance gave the ball right back the DCU. But Porter still had a lot to do, delicately controlling a bobbling ball at the top of the box before smashing the ball into goal.
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