In 2007, Lambe signed a deal to join Ipswich Town, where he spent his time in the youth and reserve squads. According to the Bernews, Ipswich let Lambe know during the 2010-11 campaign that he wasn’t going to be re-signed. He was loaned out to Bristol Rovers, given the chance to impress brass there. But he wasn’t signed when the loan expired.

The Montreal Impact’s MLS roster now stands at 20, as the club announced Wednesday that Colombian forward Miguel Montano will join the team for the 2012 season.

After three years at Trinity Western University, the left-footed defender crossed the Atlantic to begin building a European career. But, as he played for lower-division Belgian side RRFC Montegnee, he began suffering from headaches.Then he woke up one morning, and he couldn’t see.

The Vancouver Whitecaps will face their fiercest Canadian rival on opening day; the question is, how many Canadians will actually be on the field?

Toronto FC announced Monday that Stuart Neely has stepped down as the head of the club’s academy.

For fans of reigning W-League MVP Mallory Outerbridge, there will be disappointment.The Regina native was the most notable name left of John Herdman’s preliminary roster ahead of the Olympic qualifying tournament.

Canadian keeper Tomer Chencinski’s trial with Swedish side, Orebro SK, has been successful.

English veteran Ian Westlake is returning to Montreal.The Impact announced that the midfielder, who joined the club during the 2011 NASL season, is the 19th player be signed to the side’s roster for the 2012 MLS season. Westlake was named the team’s newcomer of the year at the end of the NASL campaign.

Early Monday morning, the Whitecaps announced that the club had re-signed goalkeeper Joe Cannon and defender John Thorrington, while it had traded opening-day keeper Jay Nolly to the Chicago Fire in exchange for a first-round pick in the, ahem, MLS Supplemental Draft. That is, a pick which has a minute chance of actually cracking the Whitecaps’ lineup — as anything after round two of the MLS SuperDraft proper is a crapshoot.

Like CONCACAF, Asia has a couple of big dogs on the block — South Korea and Japan — who are considered to be automatics to qualify for World Cups. And, Australia, like Canada, has still show itself to be wildly inconsistent in qualifying.But Australia isn’t waiting. It doesn’t see reform as a long-term, long-tail process. There’s a recognition that if you have a talented generation of footballers, you need to develop them, post-haste. It’s an exceptionally ballsy, lay-it-on-the-line goal to say that you want to be a top-10 FIFA nation... in just a little over three years.