Maybe, just maybe, Christine Sinclair has an heir out there 14 Dec 2015 To promote women’s soccer in Canada, Christine Sinclair is the go-to spokesperson, the poster child for the game in this country. But, if there’s a positive to come out of the first two games of the Natal Tournament in Brazil, it’s that we may, finally, have other scoring options to talk about. Sure, Sinclair scoring three times over the course …
The CONCACAF Women’s U-20 final: A friendly disguised as a championship 14 Dec 2015 Daniel Worthington, the coach of the Canadian U-20 women’s team, treated Sunday’s CONCACAF final like a glorified friendly. He used two 15-year-olds and three 16-year-olds in the 1-0 loss to the United States. Lysianne Proulx, born in 1999, got the start in goal, and it was her second-half errant pass that led to the Americans’ winning tally. Canada’s approach to …
Pickett’s penalty perfection: Canada qualifies for the Women’s U-20 WC 11 Dec 2015 Canada booked its spot in next year’s U-20 Women’s World Cup, but the team sure didn’t make things easy on itself.
FCE to head to Scotland; here’s why it makes perfect cents (sense) 11 Dec 2015 A preseason trip to Europe in no way suggests that Fath is doing anything more but increasing his investment in a team he and his brother, Dave Fath, have lost money on since day one. But, with the dollar slumping to less than 73 cents US on Friday, and it likely to drop even further as the oil price continues to sag, the fact remains that a trip to America has become increasingly expensive, and will likely be even more pricey in the spring of 2016.
MLS Cup highlights the league’s officiating woes 6 Dec 2015 Portland’s 2-1 triumph over Columbus in MLS Cup will likely be held up as the new standard for everybody who believes the quality of officiating in North America simply isn’t good enough.
MLS playoffs once again prove that Supporters’ Shield doesn’t matter at all 30 Nov 2015 While most of our hockey culture doesn’t translate well to other North American leagues, the playoffs-or-bust mentality of the NHL is a lesson that Major League Soccer fans need to learn.
No grass, no problem: Vancouver’s success has blown away several myths about hosting Canada matches 14 Nov 2015 BC Place offers the advantage of playing on artificial turf. Friday’s game likely has killed the “Canada-will-always-want-to-play-men’s-games-on-grass” argument dead. Now, saying “but they have to play on grass” will be like admitting to people that you own rap-metal records. It’s a dated argument.
Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS season-end/NASL 1 week to go 26 Oct 2015 If Kyle Porter plays 22 minutes or more for Atlanta in the final week of the NASL season, he is guaranteed to be the Canadian minutes leader in MLS or NASL this season.This is the penultimate instalment of the Power Rankings, with the MLS regular season having wrapped up this past weekend and NASL having just one week to go (save for FC Edmonton, which has a bye on the final week of the season).
Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 33/NASL Week 27 19 Oct 2015 As we head into the final week of the MLS regular-season schedule and the last two weeks of the NASL regular-season slate, only four players remain mathematically alive to be the top Canadian in terms of minutes played in either division one or two.
Canada spurns chances, makes key mistakes against Mexico 10 Oct 2015 Going into a game against a powerhouse like Mexico, you know Canada’s going to have precious few chances — so, to have any hope at all the conversion rate has got to be decent. Canada had three very good looks; Boakai misplayed the ball, Petrasso hit a poor penalty and Thomas's effort was close, but high.
