Canada names preliminary U-17 roster ahead of CONCACAF Championship By Steven Sandor Posted on March 28, 2013 2 0 882 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Hanson Boakai Six members of the Vancouver Whitecaps Residency and five players from TFC Academy are featured on coach Sean Fleming’s pre-tournament roster ahead of the CONCACAF U-20 Championships. Fleming has called 23 players to camp, which begins on Saturday in Sunrise, Fla. and runs until April 4. The CONCACAF U-17 Championship, a qualifier for the U-17 World Cup, begins April 6. Fleming can only declare a 20-man roster ahead of the opening game in Panama, so three players from this roster won’t be part of the finalized squad. There is only one senior-squad player on the roster; and that’s Hanson Boakai, the 16-year-old wunderkind who was moved from the Reserves to FC Edmonton’s senior roster in 2013. If he sees the field in 2013, he will become the youngest player to ever participate in a modern NASL game. Scouts and FC Edmonton teammates rave about Boakai’s skill with the ball at his feet. Even at his tender age, he was deemed too talented to leave playing reserve-team soccer. Kianz Froese-Gonzalez, who represented his birth country, Cuba, in the previous CONCACAF U-17s, has switched to the Canadian side. The Manitoba-raised player spent time with FC Edmonton before moving onto the Whitecaps Residency. CANADA ROSTER GK- Marco Carducci | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC Residency GK- Daniel Milton | CAN / Ajax Thunder GK- James Pantemis | CAN / Lakeshore SC D- Alex Comsia | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC Residency D- Mathieu Laurent | CAN / Mississauga Falcons D- Elias Roubos | CAN / Toronto FC Academy D- Kevon Black | CAN / Toronto FC Academy D- Ian Fernandes | CAN / Toronto FC Academy D- Aron Mkungilwa | CAN / Academie Impact Montréal D- Samuel Vinson | USA / West Pine Strikers M- Mikael Cantave | FRA / Orvault Sport Football M- Marco-Leonel Dominguez | CAN / Braves d’Ahuntsic M- Kianz Gonzales-Froese | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC Residency M- Jordan Haynes | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC Residency M- Derick Sequeira | CAN / Toronto FC Academy M/F- Hanson Boakai | CAN / FC Edmonton F- Jordan Hamilton | CAN / Toronto FC Academy F- El Mehdi Ibn Brahim | CAN / Braves d’Ahuntsic F- Derek Cornelius | CAN / Unionville U-21 M- Ali Musse | CAN / WSA Winnipeg M- Marco Bustos | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC Residency M- Andrew Gordon | CAN / Woodbridge Strikers M- Matthew Chow | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC Residency
