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MLS salary update: More Canadians working in the league, but making less

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Steven Sandor
– 05/06/2013

Dejan Jakovic: Now the No. 2 highest paid Canadian in MLS.

Dejan Jakovic: Now the No. 2 highest paid Canadian in MLS.

More Canadians are working in MLS this season than in 2012 — but those new jobs aren’t on the high-pay end of the scale.

The MLS Players’ Union released its salary update Monday, the day when the layers of secrecy are peeled away from the contracts that have been signed by the league’s players.

And what have we learned? That there are five Canadian players making US$35,125 this season, while eight more are on the books for base salaries of $46,500 each. Of those, only DC United’s Kyle Porter and TFC’s Kyle Bekker were able to squeeze some extra dough out of their deals to get a little bit more than their base contracts.

With Julian de Guzman now playing out the string with relegated Bundesliga 2. side Jahn Regensburg, he gives up his No. 1 spot on the Canadian rich list. Dwayne De Rosario, with a base number of $600,000, now takes over as the highest paid Canadian in MLS.
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De Rosario suspended for first two games of MLS season

By
Steven Sandor
– 03/01/2013

Dwayne De Rosario

Dwayne De Rosario

D.C. United will be forced to begin the MLS season without its Canadian star.

The league announced Friday — and this was expected — that Dwayne De Rosario has been suspended for the first two games of the regular season. The suspension will include this weekend’s season opener, which sees DCU travel to Houston to face the Dynamo, the team which De Rosario led to a pair of MLS Cup victories

Last weekend, on the final day of the preseason Walt Disney World Pro Soccer Classic, De Rosario head butted Philadelphia’s Danny Cruz and was sent off. MLS has become more proactive about punishing players for violent conduct committed in preseason friendlies — and the league launched an investigation. Because the game wasn’t televised or streamed, the league needed time to put together exactly what had happened through eyewitness accounts, etc.
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The Super-Duper MLS preview, 2013 edition

By
Steven Sandor
– 02/28/2013
Philip F. Anschutz Trophy, the big prize at the end of the season

Philip F. Anschutz Trophy, the big prize at the end of the season

With the MLS season moved up to its earliest start ever, forgive us if we don’t feel 100 per cent totally prepared for First Kick. Judging by the way many MLS teams finished preseason, with tentative matches and still looking at trialists with a week to go before the games count in the standings, a lot of coaches aren’t quite ready for the early start, either.

And that could be telling. The teams that got the jump and have their ducks in a row could have a real advantage in these March matchups; and they could find some bonus points that could help them in the fall.

Steven Sandor, Editor of The 11 and contributors Randy Davis, Aman Dhanoa, Mark Polishuk and Gavin Day all submitted their picks. We tallied the scores and we present our picks below.
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Canada’s draw with the USA “means the world” to Miller

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Gavin Day
– 01/30/2013

Canada’s Tosaint Ricketts, left, eyes the ball as U.S. defender Justin Morrow is set to head it away. PHOTO: CANADA SOCCER

At a time when the Canadian senior men’s team is trying to regain some of the momentum it lost on that fateful day last October in San Pedro Sula, a scoreless draw by a makeshift Canadian side against a team largely made up of MLS regulars will go down as a good first step.

Facing a near-constant American attack, the Canadians held on and came out the other side with a 0-0 draw in Houston, what is seen by the group as a more than satisfactory end to its January camp.

Though the Canadians gave up 11 shots compared to their four, only two American attempts were on target with Simon Thomas picking up his first clean sheet for Canada in his first start.

If anything, Dwayne De Rosario had the best chance of the game when he blasted a left-footed attempt at goal that American goalkeeper Sean Johnson punched away. Read the rest of this entry »

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Miller: Canadians “gave away” easy goals to Denmark

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SPECIAL to The 11
– 01/27/2013

Despite having ample time to players and fans alike get prepared for what was expected to be a long day for the Canadian men’s soccer team, it was still difficult to at times as they stumbled to a 4-0 loss to Denmark Saturday at the Kino Veterans’ Memorial Stadium in Tucson, Ariz.

Andreas Cornelius scored twice in the first half and added another in the second to complete his hat-trick to lead the Danish attack while Kasper Laurentzen contributed with a goal as well. While the Danish movement and attacked flowed easily, the Canadian defending was guilty in gifting the Danish goals.

“We’re disappointed certainly in the manner of the goals that we gave away,” said interim head coach Colin Miller. “There were aspects of the game that we were pleased with. We corrected one or two things at halftime. You can’t give players at this level of football as much time as we gave them in the first half and that was clearly evident.”
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Fresenga, Jonke questionable for Canada-Denmark match

By
Steven Sandor
– 01/25/2013

Andres Fresenga

Injuries to fullback Andres Fresenga and forward Frank Jonke have made a thin Canadian squad even thinner ahead of Saturday’s friendly with Denmark.

Interim national men’s team coach Colin Miller said both players suffered knocks in training this week in Arizona, and are officially listed as questionable for Saturday’s match. But reading into Miller’s follow-up comments, and you have to think both players will be out.

Miller later said the goal was to get both players healthy enough to play in Tuesday’s night’s game against the United States. If that’s the goal, it’s likely both players would be held back. Because Miller has just 19 outfield players at his disposal, he could compromise his squad if Jonke or Fresenga could only give him a couple of minutes against the Danes and then missed the date with the Americans.
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Canada names roster for Denmark, U.S. friendlies: Miller says no conflict in Porter callup

By
Steven Sandor
– 01/18/2013

Kyle Porter in action against Atlanta.

Interim national-team head coach Colin Miller has called in a squad that mixes youth and experience for Canada’s two upcoming friendly.

FC Edmonton’s coach is taking the reins of the national side for a Jan. 26 date with Denmark in Tucson, Ari. and a Jan. 29 clash with the U.S. in Houston. He then reports back to FC Edmonton in time for the NASL combine.

While mainstays such as keeper Lars Hirschfeld and Canada’s all-time leading scorer, Dwayne De Rosario, are on the roster, Miller also gave nods to Philippe Davies, who spent last season in the USL, and Kyle Porter, who spent two seasons in the NASL.

The average of the team is 25.

If there is any one spot on the roster where anyone would question the division of Miller’s loyalties between his club and country, it’s the decision to include forward Kyle Porter in the squad.

Officially, Porter is one of five unattached players Miller has called into team, as the forward has yet to accept a new contract offer from FCE. Miller has previously confirmed (CLICK HERE FOR THAT STORY) that the Eddies have given Porter, who has scored 12 times over the last two NASL seasons, a deadline to sign the offer, or else the club will move on without him.
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Occean limps out of Frankfurt win with “muscle injury”

By
Steven Sandor
– 09/21/2012

Olivier Occean

Canadian striker Olivier Occean left Eintracht Frankfurt’s Bundesliga match Friday with what his team has called a “muscle injury.”

Occean, who opened his Bundesliga account with a goal last week, hobbled out of Frankfurt’s 2-1 win over FC Nurnberg just 20 minutes into the match. Newly promoted Frankfurt won its fourth match in a row, but Canadian fans will be focused on Occean’s status ahead of the men’s national team’s two upcoming World Cup qualifiers.

In mid October, Canada will host Cuba and then go on the road to Honduras as it wraps up play in CONCACAF Group C. The top two teams in Group C will go on to the Hex.

Panama, which has a date against Cuba in its final two matches, is almost assured one of the final two spots, which leaves it between Canada and Honduras, who are tied on points at the moment, for the other spot. Honduras, though, previously got a draw at BMO Field.
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DeRo to miss Canada’s next two World Cup qualifiers

By
Steven Sandor
– 09/13/2012

The Canadian men’s national team will go into its two biggest World Cup qualifiers in more than two decades without the country’s all-time leading scorer.

On Thursday, D.C. United announced that Dwayne De Rosario has a Grade III sprain of his medial collateral ligament and will be out for 10-12 weeks. That means he will miss the rest of the MLS regular season and, more importantly for Canadian soccer fans, won’t be available for Canada’s final two CONCACAF Group C matches, home to Cuba and away to Honduras.

De Rosario suffered the injury early in Tuesday’s 2-0 loss to Panama, after he collided with Panamanian Felipe Baloy.
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Bernier: Canada “should have never been like this” in Panama rematch

By
Gavin Day
– 09/12/2012

Canada’s Julian de Guzman, right, tries to carry the ball past Panama’s Luis Henriquez. PHOTO: CANADA SOCCER

Panamanian supporters wasted quite a lot of beer Tuesday night but they didn’t care one bit.

The hometown fans reacted the same way on both occasions as their team scored their goals against a Canadian team that was on the back foot right from the start. Each time the ball crossed the line and into the Canadian goal, they would throw their hands up in celebration, throwing whatever they had (in most cases beer) into the air.

They were treated to a dominating performance by their team as Canada wilted under humid conditions in Panama. It wasn’t particularly hot but as the old saying goes, “it’s not the heat that’ll kill you—it’s the humidity.”

“We should have never been like this, at least from the get-go,” said midfielder Patrice Bernier after the 2-0 loss. “You can understand it during the game to lose momentum or be tired but I think in a game like this we should be ready from the get-go and give them more of a battle.”
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