Tristan went to the ground, his legs shaking, his hands covering his face, after he received a hand to the face from Canada’s Antonio Rocco Romeo in the second half. Romeo had earlier scored the equalizer, but was sent off for the slap.

The temperature was ice cold in Edmonton on Saturday night. There were snowflakes in the air. But Puerto Rico coach Adrian Whitbread’s temper was white-hot.

Pape Diakite, who was the NASL’s Young Player of the Year in 2016, was again missing from FC Edmonton’s lineup on Saturday.

“I do a report [after every game] and that was as poor a report that I’ve written for the team,” said Miller. “And that’s very hard to take when you’re the one steering the ship. I’ve always said it’s our team when we win, and my team when we get beat. There were portions of that game I was cringing, watching, because it was one of Colin Miller’s teams and I don’t want that to happen again.”

National registration statistics indicate that the number of female soccer players in Canada is slipping. In the wake of a Women’s World Cup, why are we seeing this trend of slowing interest?

The day before the Canadian men’s national team faced Scotland in Edinburgh, Octavio Zambrano addressed the team.

Now that JDG has hung up his boots, we can celebrate a career of a true Canadian great; he was only a boy when he left for France, clawing and scratching to be noticed. It was due to his hard work and dogged determination that the chance to play in the top flights of European football finally came.

But the arena game isn’t dead. And Peter Kovacs, the president and general manager of the new Toronto club that will play in the Major Arena Soccer League beginning in 2018, believes that his club’s efforts will create a new wave of interest in the traditional indoor game.

After three seasons with the Ottawa Fury, Canadian midfielder Mauro Eustaquio has a new home with FC Edmonton. We trace the player’s career, from Portugal to Leamington to the Alberta capital...

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