In fact, anyone who had never seen the Whitecaps before Thursday’s playoff game would have likely said that Matt Watson — a guy who played in NASL last season — must be a Designated Player, not Robson or Miller.

Mexico is the devil we know. Maybe it’s time to do a deal with that devil, and bring some of those guts, and that know-how, to the politically correct Canadian soccer landscape

The Canada West clash of the titans between No. 2 UBC and No. 4 Alberta ended in a 2-2 draw, thank to an 81st-minute equalizer that Golden Bear Jonah Feil headed off the underside of the bar and in.

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

Ri Un Sim scored goals in the 78th and 87th minutes, pacing North Korea to a 2-1 win over the Canadians in Azerbaijan. Sim has scored in every game in the tournament so far.

And there’s a wisdom that exists about injury-prone players. They have a tendency to remain injury-prone. Hence the use of the word, “prone.”

The Argentine forward was named NASL Player of the Week for the second consecutive time on Monday. He got 17 of the 19 first-place votes from the members of the North American Soccer Reporters.

Ferreira nabbed 15 of the 18 first-place votes cast by members of the North American Soccer Reporters.

Herdman has worked miracles with this team in less than a year. Imagine what he could do with three years of prep time before the Women’s World Cup?

The Laval Cometes dominate the Canadian roster for the upcoming U-20 Women’s World Cup.