Canadian national teamers look forward to the day NWSL expands north of the border 5 Feb 2013 While the four members of the Canadian women’s national team who were in Edmonton Monday will all soon head Stateside to report to their NWSL teams, they still dream of playing pro soccer in their home and native land.
FC Edmonton: Porter won’t be with the team in 2013 4 Feb 2013 Kyle Porter is on trial with D.C. United. But, if that doesn't pan out, the Canadian forward no longer has an FC Edmonton contract offer as a fallback position.
Payne does best he can with deal to unload TFC’s panic buy of Hassli 4 Feb 2013 Toronto FC president and GM Kevin Payne made the best of a bad situation by dealing Designated Player Eric Hassli to FC Dallas for a conditional second-round pick in the 2014 SuperDraft.
CSL finally goes public: Says it still has CSA sanction 3 Feb 2013 The Canadian Soccer League says that it is still sanctioned by the Canadian Soccer Association.
Whitecaps’ early preseason does little to clear a muddy goalkeeping picture 3 Feb 2013 While there isn’t a coach or manager in the world who doesn’t want to see his or her team’s defence prevent as many scoring chances as it can, it might serve the Whitecaps to see their keepers’ feet put to the fire.
Canada names roster for final U-17 camp ahead of CONCACAF qualifying 31 Jan 2013 While the TFC Academy and Whitecaps Residency players take up 60 per cent of the roster, the player on this squad that has the best chance of breaking into a senior pro squad this season is FC Edmonton Reserves’ Hanson Boakai. Not many training days go by without someone at FCE raving about his potential.
De Guzman walks right into a Bundesliga 2. relegation battle 31 Jan 2013 Canadian midfielder Julian de Guzman will be thrown right into the fire with his new club, SSV Jahn Regensburg.
Mattocks needs just 15 minutes to notch hat trick in Whitecaps’ preseason win 30 Jan 2013 The Whitecaps may have signed a slew of attacking players over the last week, but Darren Mattocks re-established himself as the big man on campus after the team’s first preseason game of 2013.
Days after being spotted at RSL camp, Plata’s move is finally official 30 Jan 2013 Now that midfielder Joao Plata is gone, at least Toronto FC’s front office won’t have to worry about being one step behind the Ecuadorean.
Fantastic four? Canadians Bennett, Farenhorst, LeRoy and Tice off to NASL combine 29 Jan 2013 LeRoy, the Ottawa native who was part of the Eddies roster in 2011 and spent last season in the USL with Harrisburg City, is one of four Canadians on the roster for the NASL Combine, which runs Feb. 1-3 in Fort Lauderdale.