FC Edmonton’s Roberts called into Canada’s national side 6 Jun 2015The Canadian Soccer Association has announced that FC Edmonton defender Mallan Roberts — who got his citizenship earlier this year — has been called up the men's national team ahead of their June 11 and 16 World Cup qualifiers against Dominica.
Chile reception: FC Edmonton’s Lance Laing off to Copa America 2 Jun 2015FC Edmonton left winger Lance Laing will be heading to South America.
FC Edmonton: No contact at all with Canadian professional league backers 1 Jun 2015But, if the league does indeed come to be — and, to be fair, there is still a lot of skepticism out there — the assumption that the North American Soccer League’s Ottawa Fury and FC Edmonton would simply come along for the ride is well, off-base.
Canadian stalemate: Fury shuts out Eddies’ NASL-leading offence 29 May 2015“Escape” is the appropriate word, because FCE keeper John Smits, making his second start in a row, made two outstanding point-blank second-half saves, to give the Eddies their first clean sheet of the season — in Cup or NASL play.
FCE injury update: Edward available for Ottawa trip, Ameobi listed as day-to-day 27 May 2015Coach Colin Miller said that Ameobi is officially listed as day-to-day, and is undergoing a scan to assess the severity of the injury to his foot.
Traffic stop: NASL suspends Davidson, distances itself from disgraced superagency 27 May 2015The North American Soccer League 2.0 and Brazil-based superagency Traffic Sports had been joined at the hip since the league was formed by rebel USL-team owners back in 2010.
It “could have been 9-6”: Eddies win high-scoring affair, but Smits named man of the match 24 May 2015It’s not often when there are six goals in a game — and the winning team scores four of them — that a goalkeeper is named the man of the match.
One in nearly 1.14 million: How FC Edmonton’s last two ACC losses defied the odds 22 May 2015How about this: That the mathematical chance of FC Edmonton losing in the semifinal stage of the Amway Canadian Championship — on goals scored in the 96th minute of the second leg — is one in 1,137,777.77.
Fath gives his thumbs-up to NASL’s Miami expansion 21 May 2015But, having more teams in the southeast will only serve to increase the travel bill for the Eddies, currently the only NASL team in the Mountain time zone. Just with the four Florida teams, the Eddies are looking at four road trips of 3,000-4,000 km (one-way) each. It’s given wisdom that flying an NASL team and paying for hotels and meals costs north of $20,000 a trip. But Fath told me that, when the Eddies faced Fort Lauderdale in the playoffs back in the FCE’s inaugural season, booking seats and hotels last-second ballooned the costs to over $40,000 for that trip.
Heartbreak kids: Eddies lose Canadian Championship semifinal in 96th minute… again 20 May 2015FC Edmonton is developing a tragic history of giving up late goals to lose Amway Canadian Championship ties. Last year, it was a 96th-minute Patrice Bernier penalty that gave the Montreal Impact a last-gasp semifinal win over the Eddies. On Wednesday, Whitecap substitute Matias Laba rolled the ball across the goal line in the 96th minute of the semifinal’s second …
