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    Zero is my hero: Despite being shut out in two of three matches, Canada takes third at Algarve Cup

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    Two games at Algarve Cup, no goals from open play

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    Canada held off the scoresheet by Iceland: Time for some knee-jerk reaction!

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    Canada Soccer plays most of the hits, saves Herdman for the encore

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    Canada Soccer enters the Nike age

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    See you in Switzerland: Fury to take sanctioning case to Court of Arbitration for Sport

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    Canada held off the scoresheet by Iceland: Time for some knee-jerk reaction!

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    Huitema signs with American super-agency, will skip NCAA and go pro

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    Attack in black: Sinclair’s 178th goal gives Canada a win over Norway

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    Soolsma rocks you like a Tiger Hurricane

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    Canadian HOFer Chapman reflects on the high and lows of a storied career

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    Zero is my hero: Despite being shut out in two of three matches, Canada takes third at Algarve Cup

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    Two games at Algarve Cup, no goals from open play

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    Win two tickets to see The Workers Cup

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    Two highlight-reel goals punctuate Canada’s Algarve Cup finale

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    Toronto FC exits CCL with a whimper on a cold night

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    Woeful TFC is punished in Panama

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    Fury granted right to play in USL in 2019; sanction up for review again in 2020

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    See you in Switzerland: Fury to take sanctioning case to Court of Arbitration for Sport

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    Zero is my hero: Despite being shut out in two of three matches, Canada takes third at Algarve Cup

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    Two games at Algarve Cup, no goals from open play

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    Canada held off the scoresheet by Iceland: Time for some knee-jerk reaction!

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    Attack in black: Sinclair’s 178th goal gives Canada a win over Norway

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    World Cup ratings: Canadian viewership numbers down significantly from 2014

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    Edmonton soccer fans: See the World Cup semis and final on the big movie screen

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    World Cup not yet making a huge ratings splash on traditional Canadian TV

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    CONCACAF CONCACAFs CAF: United gets World Cup 2026, as Moroccan vote collapses

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    Canada’s 3-0 win may be the most fortunate 3-0 win you’ll ever see

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    Canada wins ugly against a scrappy Brazilian side

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    Canada goes home from the U-17 Women’s World Cup after loss to Venezuela

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    Young players shine as Canada claims bronze in Rio

9 New Articles
  • April 1, 2019 Belan sets cautious path towards CanPL
  • March 6, 2019 Zero is my hero: Despite being shut out in two of three matches, Canada takes third at Algarve Cup
  • March 1, 2019 Two games at Algarve Cup, no goals from open play
  • February 27, 2019 Canada held off the scoresheet by Iceland: Time for some knee-jerk reaction!
  • February 26, 2019 Toronto FC exits CCL with a whimper on a cold night
  • February 19, 2019 Woeful TFC is punished in Panama
  • February 11, 2019 Canada Soccer plays most of the hits, saves Herdman for the encore
  • January 31, 2019 NASL veterans, returnees highlight FCE’s five new signings
  • January 30, 2019 CanPL roundup: Wanderers go local, former England U-17 joins the Cavalry
  • CONCACAF

    Toronto FC exits CCL with a whimper on a cold night

    By Steven Sandor
    Posted February 26, 2019
  • CONCACAF

    Woeful TFC is punished in Panama

    By Steven Sandor
    Posted February 19, 2019
  • CONCACAF

    Fury granted right to play in USL in 2019; sanction up for review again in 2020

    By Steven Sandor
    Posted December 21, 2018
  • CONCACAF

    See you in Switzerland: Fury to take sanctioning case to Court of Arbitration for Sport

    By Steven Sandor
    Posted December 19, 2018
  • CONCACAF

    Ottawa Fury not backing down, but will players, agents take chances on a team with an uncertain future?

    By Steven Sandor
    Posted December 17, 2018
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Canada wins its CONCACAF group, will face Panama in semis

By Steven Sandor
in :  CONCACAF, Women's National Team, Women's World Cup
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11 Oct 2018

Canada will play Panama Sunday, with the winner getting one of CONCACAF’s qualification spots at the Women’s World Cup.


FIFA wants to “optimize” women’s World Cup qualifying — CONCACAF is the place to start

By Steven Sandor
in :  CONCACAF, Women's National Team, Women's World Cup
Comments Off on FIFA wants to “optimize” women’s World Cup qualifying — CONCACAF is the place to start
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9 Oct 2018

Here’s a suggestion. What would be a hell of a lot better than streaming a World Cup qualifying match from a mostly empty 9,700-seat USL stadium in Edinburg, Tex.? Seeing Canada playing World Cup qualifiers in Ottawa or in Toronto or in Vancouver or in Winnipeg or in Edmonton. Or Victoria. Or Moncton. Heck, there’s a decent stadium in Fort Mac.


Canada scores a dozen against Cuba

By Steven Sandor
in :  CONCACAF, Women's National Team, Women's World Cup
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864
8 Oct 2018

With the game already in hand, Sinclair was introduced at the start of the second half, clearly an effort to get her closer to all-time women’s international goal scoring leader Abby Wambach’s total of 184. On a two-player break, SInclair opted to pass to Huitema for a tap-in rather than take it herself. And when Sinclair got no. 174, she did not scream or raise her arms in triumph. She led her teammates quietly back to half.


Prince’s two goals put a shine on an uninspired Canadian effort

By Steven Sandor
in :  CONCACAF, Women's National Team, Women's World Cup
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5 Oct 2018

So, after Nichelle Prince’s brace gave Canada a 2-0 win over Jamaica in their group-stage opener at the CONCACAF Women’s Championship, all is sweetness and light. Right? Right? A Friday night match in a Texas USL stadium in front of, well, hundreds didn’t provide a lot of fireworks, but three points is three points, uh huh?


Tabla and Hutch and Davies and David. And, maybe, a lot of empty seats

By Steven Sandor
in :  CONCACAF, Men's National Team
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2 Oct 2018

Yet, go to Ticketmaster’s website, search out the Oct. 16 match, click on the link for BMO Field's seat map, and you find enough blue dots — which represent unsold seats — to make up an ocean. At this point, it looks like it would take a fantastic surge just to get the lower bowl half full.


Canada begins Nations League with expected rout of USVI

By Steven Sandor
in :  CONCACAF, Men's National Team
5
1,074
9 Sep 2018

You have to wonder, if there comes a time when the likes of Jonathan David or Cyle Larin or Lucas Cavallini threaten the all-time record for national-team goals, how much their fortunes were boosted by being part of the first-ever CONCACAF Nations League qualifying campaign. It will be almost unfair to look at their ledgers and compare them to Canadian national-team players of the past.


Herdman: U.S. Virgin Islands offers a “different challenge” for Canada

By Steven Sandor
in :  CONCACAF, Men's National Team
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7 Sep 2018

“It’s one of those tier-three matches that, when you frame this up for the players, it’s a different challenge than playing against a Mexico,” Herdman said in a conference call from Canada’s camp in Florida on Friday. “There’s an expectation to rack up a scoreline.”


Wotherspoon hasn’t actually been to Canada yet, but he’s relishing the Nations League challenge

By Steven Sandor
in :  CONCACAF, Men's National Team
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6 Sep 2018

If David Wotherspoon is named to the Canadian roster for the Oct. 16 Nations League qualifier against Dominica, he’ll be making his first-ever trip to the country he’s representing.


Canada wins ugly against a scrappy Brazilian side

By Steven Sandor
in :  CONCACAF, More Women's Soccer, South America, Women's National Team
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1,304
2 Sep 2018

But, as Canada preps for the CONCACAF championships — this region’s qualifiers for the 2019 Women’s World Cup — maybe this scrappy 1-0 win was exactly the kind of game that was needed. The Brazilians hacked. They whacked.  The game had very little in terms of flow.


Herdman sees Canada playing in the World Cup in four years time

By Steven Sandor
in :  CONCACAF, Men's National Team, Toronto FC
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30 Aug 2018

“There are parts of this team that I’m really comfortable with and, when I look to the future and I’m projecting out four years time and we’re in a World Cup playing against tough opposition, top opposition, which of the players are going be able to cope with that level of competition?”


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