"We could've at least scored seven goals today, we had so many chances," said Atiba Hutchinson. "There could've been a lot more. Players kind of had their heads down a little bit because we know we could've had more goals."

And maybe this is the problem with sport today — we have become far too quick to judge athletes who are frustrated when they lose. As journalists, we are such hypocrites — we want our subjects and interviews to give us as much colour as they can, to be as honest and emotional as possible, then, after the stories run, we go off and say “(s)he shouldn’t have said that to the media.”

“He’s a very technical player,” Saler said of Dosanjh. “You can’t let him have space. You can’t let him use his skill. We have to be able to take away his time and space.”

Coach Nick Dasovic’s men lost the match after midfielder and Vancouver Whitecap Bryce Alderson was sent off, and then Azerbaijan got a late penalty-kick winner.

Earlier this year, I had the chance to sit down with Tosaint Ricketts and talk at length about his soccer-playing life, from growing up in Edmonton to the months of not getting paid at FC Politehnica Timisoara.

The eyes of Canadian soccer fans need to be trained on Edmonton’s City Council Chambers on Oct. 31.

Canada’s U-20 men’s team scalped the United States Wednesday at the Marbella Cup in Spain.

And in Alberta, the richest, most prosperous province in Canada by a country mile, a place where people who drive buses make more than execs in Toronto, we have a debate about whether or not to stick temporary trailers on a track in order to get our World Cup bid to a passing-grade level. And it shows just how much PR work the CSA has to do in Canada’s centre of wealth.

Eddies’ central defender Paul Hamilton was named to the squad, which was announced by the league on Tuesday. The centre back was named defensive player of week in mid-May and led the team in minutes played, with 2,024.

But Thanksgiving Monday’s national club championship final between Royal-Select Beauport and Edmonton Scottish was a compelling Cup final, the kind of game you’ll talk about years from now. Beauport, down to 10 men, triumphed over a Scottish side laden with former NASL and USL players.