MLS All-Star conflict with CONCACAF Champions League sends the wrong international message 1 Feb 2011 Major League Soccer continually talks about the importance of having its teams succeed in international competition but, once again, the league has placed its All-Star game in direct conflict with the CONCACAF Champions League. MLS announced that it will host its annual All-Star Game July 27 at Red Bull Arena. But, as has been the case with the last two All-Star events, it clashes with the preliminary round of the CONCACAF Champions League. CONCACAF has already slated July 26-28 as the window for the first legs of the opening round.
FC Edmonton still waiting on NASL combine lists 31 Jan 2011 The NASL combine is set for this weekend. FC Edmonton is looking to stock its roster.
Sidra’s speed could be a major boost for TFC 28 Jan 2011 Could Eddy Sidra be a difference-maker for Toronto FC? Sidra is currently out of contract after leaving Energie Cottbus, the German side that signs so much Canadian talent, last year. TFC announced that he is one of three confirmed Canadian trialists who will join the team in Turkey.
Crisis? What crisis? NASL releases 2011 schedule 26 Jan 2011 The North American Soccer League did its best impression of an organization NOT in crisis Tuesday, as it released its full 2011 schedule, and announced that six of the circuit’s eight teams will make the playoffs
Hoilett scores again for Rovers in EPL win 23 Jan 2011 Junior Hoilett is enjoying the best form of his career. The 20-year-old from Brampton scored with a unstoppable thunderbolt of a shot, as Blackburn Roves beat West Bromwich Albion by a 2-0 score.
RSL gives Johnson the green light to play for Canada in Greece 23 Jan 2011 ]Even though coach Jason Kreis has just four weeks and three days to get Real Salt Lake prepared for its first competitive game, he wouldn’t dream of asking Will Johnson to skip Canada’s Feb. 9 friendly in Greece. Kreis and Johnson confirmed at the opening of Real Salt Lake training camp Saturday at the University of Utah that the Canadian midfielder will be part of Stephen Hart’s squad that will go to Greece.
NASL scrambles to get back in the USSF’s good books 22 Jan 2011 The fledgling North American Soccer League has confirmed that the United States Soccer Federation has yanked its pledge to sanction it as the region’s official Division 2.
Whitecaps, TFC take chances on longshots in Supplemental Draft 18 Jan 2011 he ‘Caps, as they did in the SuperDraft, held the first pick in the Supplemental Draft. With that pick, they grabbed New Zealander Michael Boxall from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Boxall had been expected to go in the SuperDraft but slipped badly in the eyes of the scouts during the combine.
FC Edmonton loses midfielder van Gessel to Japan 17 Jan 2011 Like former coach Dwight Lodeweges and assistant Hans Schrijver, van Gessel had a clause in his FC Edmonton contract that allowed him to leave the club if a better offer came along. So, he is following his former coaches to Japan, FC Edmonton announced Monday.
FC Edmonton hopes to bring out 50,000 for TFC matchup 17 Jan 2011 Can a Nutrilite Canadian Championship game generate enough interest to sell 50,000 tickets? That question will be answered in May, when FC Edmonton hosts Toronto FC at Commonwealth Stadium.
