Oh, so we’re talking about an MLS winter schedule again? Will it ever go away? 14 Oct 2013 So, when news hit Monday (again, sigh) that MLS might look at a winter schedule, a charge that the league denied, I couldn’t help but feel that this was a lot like November, 2010 all over again.
Canadian NT coach Floro: Result against Australia “doesn’t matter” 14 Oct 2013 “For us, it (the result) doesn’t matter,” Floro said through a translator in a media conference call Thanksgiving Monday. “We play (so we can play) in our system.”
Scorpions beat FC Edmonton in battle of Canadian head coaches 13 Oct 2013 And, after a lightning delay it was Alen Marcina, the San Antonio Scorpions’ interim boss, who could claim the win over FC Edmonton’s Colin Miller.
Impact’s loss to New England puts playoff hopes in peril 12 Oct 2013 “It's always difficult to explain after a game like this one,” declared head coach Marco Schallibaum in his post-game comments. “In short we were not strong enough. We were not able to cause the other team any difficulty. The will was there but the quality was not. We took a goal in the first half and were chasing it the rest of the game. We were not strong in the last 20 metres. We were just not good today,” he concluded.
Ottawa Fury to begin 2014 NASL season at Carleton University 11 Oct 2013 The team announced Friday that it will play its first five home games at Keith Harris Stadium, a multipurpose campus facility that has artificial turf and, yes, permanent football lines. The stadium has new bleachers that can accommodate up to 3,000 fans. The Fury stated that the facility can be expanded to handle as many as 5,000 people.
Counterpoint: Why the Cosmos’s dominance is good for the NASL 11 Oct 2013 In soccer, enforced parity is deadly. You yourself say that "draws are the norm" in NASL. For the teams placed 2–7, that's more or less true, especially for two teams. Second-place Tampa Bay (five draws) averages 1.4 points per game. In the Bundesliga, that rate would put them in seventh place. NASL's seventh-place Edmonton (also with five draws) averages 1.1 points per game, a rate that's good for 15th place in the Bundesliga (an 18-team league).
Miller: FCE isn’t out of the NASL fall-season hunt yet 10 Oct 2013 “If Carolina can go to New York and get a draw, we win our game, then we go down to New York and get a result… there are four games left. There are still points to play for.”
Hat trick is like Manneh from heaven for the Whitecaps 10 Oct 2013 “I always have this feeling, every game, that I'm going to make an impact,” Manneh told reporters following the game. “No matter how much time I play — if I start or come off the bench — I'm always looking to make an impact on the game.”
Dos Santos takes Canadian U-18 squad to Guatemala 8 Oct 2013 Canada is already preparing its men’s side for the next round of U-20 World Cup qualifying.
As Cosmos runs away with NASL fall season, the league’s format is put to the test 8 Oct 2013 Think about it. With a month to go in the regular season, we’re already talking about a second-place team being eliminated from the race. That’s how lopsided the NASL fall-season, ahem, “race” has become.