Di Chiara says he was surprised to get national-team call from Hart 4 Oct 2011 Joseph Di Chiara thought that he was eventually going to get a call from a Canadian national side — just not the senior national side.
Di Chiara’s former coach breaks down Canadian teen’s first-ever Russian league start 23 Jun 2011 Yuri Studin, the president of the Greater Toronto Area’s Spartacus Soccer Club, has known Joseph Di Chiara since the boy was in the early stages of elementary school. He remembers young Joseph as not being tough enough to even keep up with his sister on the soccer pitch. Now, Studin is beaming with pride. After coming in as a sub last Saturday in a match against Terek Grozny, Di Chiara, now 19, got his first start Wednesday in the Russian Premier League in the sky blue shirt of Kryliya Sovetov, a 3-0 home loss to Anzhi Makhachkala.
