FC Edmonton on the Cosmos visit to Canada: “They are the biggest team in the North American soccer landscape” 29 Aug 2013 Give FC Edmonton credit. When a team like the New York Cosmos comes to town, a lot of players would revert to cliches like "it's just another game." The Eddies didn't do that. They know the occasion will be special.
NASL Commissioner: If Puerto Rico wants back in, must go through expansion process; Edmonton meetings went well 19 Aug 2013 With the announcement that the Islanders won’t be back for spring 2014, the NASL will no longer play the waiting game with the franchise.
Early red card seals Thunder Bay’s fate in PDL final; Ottawa’s Chad Bush named top keeper 5 Aug 2013 The Thunder Bay Chill got the opening goal in the second, had its keeper sent off in the third, and gave up the game-tying penalty-kick goal in the seventh. With only 10 men on the pitch, the life was sucked out of the Canadian side’s title challenge, and the Chill fell to the host Austin Aztex 3-1 on Sunday night.
Thunder Bay Chill to contest PDL final in Austin 3 Aug 2013 The Thunder Bay Chill got goals from a Spaniard and a Brazilian to win the, ahem, all-Canadian PDL semifinal over the Victoria Highlanders.
Highlanders and Chill bring Canadian content to PDL final four 29 Jul 2013 At the end of the day, two of the Canadian sides remained standing. The Thunder Bay Chill and the Victoria Highlanders will carry Canadian soccer hopes into the PDL’s final four championship weekend.
O Canada! Chill, FC London and Highlanders join Fury in PDL’s Elite Eight 28 Jul 2013 The Thunder Bay Chill will host Forest City London Sunday to determine the PDL Central Conference champion.
Canadian U20 prospects combine to propel Laval into W-League final 27 Jul 2013 Canadian soccer fans will be more than pleased to see the combination of Amandine Pierre-Louis and Valerie Sanderson creating a goal for the national team at next year’s U-20 World Cup.
NASL to have unbalanced split season in 2014 to accommodate World Cup 26 Jul 2013 The 11 understands that there was debate about starting the season earlier in year, which would have allowed for a balanced spring-fall schedule. But, that would have been unfair to northern members in Minnesota, Edmonton and Ottawa. A schedule which would start in early March would have meant the Fury and FC Edmonton could have been playing game at home in heavy snow, or been forced to start the campaigns with ridiculously long road trips.
NASL adds franchises in Jacksonville and Oklahoma City… but teams still needed in MT and PT zones 25 Jul 2013 The Board of Governors met with four groups, and approved the Jacksonville and OKC bids. Both teams will join the league in 2015. NASL spokesman Michael Preston said that the league won’t identify the other two cities that had bids in, but they didn’t receive flat-out rejections. See them more as being at the beginning of NASL courtship.
Four Canadians named to the W-League all-star squad 24 Jul 2013 With nearly 40 per cent of the team’s spots taken by Canadians, the W-League’s all-star selections certainly have a good-news feel to them.