Poor finishing likely costs FC Edmonton home-field advantage 12 Sep 2011 In a game the Eddies needed to win to improve their chances of home-field advantage in the first round of the playoffs, they surrendered a 1-0 lead and lost 2-1 to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the regular season finale at Foote Field.
Carolina’s coaching decisions will influence Montreal Impact’s fate 9 Sep 2011 But now that the club has clinched the top playoff seed, will coach Martin Rennie contine to put out a full-strength lineup as the RailHawks play out the string?
De Rosario named MLS Player of the Month 1 Sep 2011 Dwayne De Rosario will go into Canada’s World Cup qualifier against St. Lucia with another feather under his cap. The veteran was named the MLS Player of the Month for August after the votes from the membership of the North American Soccer Reporters were counted.
D.C. United dominates Player of the Week voting, again 15 Aug 2011 For the third week in a row, a member of D.C. United is the MLS Player of the Week. Chris Pontius got the award this week, after his teammate — Canadian national-teamer Dwayne De Rosario — took the award over the last two weeks. Pontius was the top vote-getter in balloting from the North American Soccer Reporters.
De Rosario named MLS Player of the Week… again 8 Aug 2011 Dwayne De Rosario has become the first player in three years to win the MLS Player of the Week honour twice in a row.
Canadian content saved for the All-Star reserve squad 26 Jul 2011 If only one of the two players named to the All-Stars reserves on Monday would have been named to the proper squad, there could have been a glimmer of hope for MLS supporters north of the border. D.C. United’s Dwayne De Rosario and Vancouver Whitecap Eric Hassli were both named to all-star taxi squad.
Canadians in Europe: Jackson scores for NCFC in friendly, Ricketts’ relegation confirmed by court 20 Jul 2011 Jackson started as the attacking midfielder and scored Wednesday as Norwich played an unusual preseason exhibition, ahem, “match” against two German sides. NCFC held a 4-0 lead at halftime (with Jackson supplying goal No. 3) over Sparta Gottingen. The club then played RSV Gottingen in the second, er, “half.” On Monday, the CAS confirmed that the appeals from Timisoara and three other Romanian clubs whose licences weren’t granted for similar reasons were not valid.
CBC’s broadcast of WWC final nets more than a million viewers 19 Jul 2011 The overnight ratings showed an average audience of 1.051 million. But, the match reached the 1.77 million viewer mark as Homare Sawa, the player of the tournament, redirected a corner kick to tie the game 2-2 and the Americans went on to shank penalty after penalty.
DeRo steals the show in his New York return 10 Jul 2011 Canada’s best-ever MLS player returned to Red Bull Arena Saturday, just a couple of weeks after he was dealt from New York to D.C. United. And he said “did you miss me?” in the most emphatic way possible. He scored the second-half decider, giving DCU the 1-0 win over the star-studded Red Bulls.
Zusi named MLS Player of the Month for June 2 Jul 2011 Major League Soccer announced on Friday (Canada Day) that Sporting Kansas City midfielder Graham Zusi had been named the June Player of the Month after the ballots from the North American Soccer Reporters were tallied. Sporting Kansas City has been on a tear. Zusi had two goals and three assists as the club went undefeated (3-0-2) in the previous month.
