Hutchinson: National-team success will spur more opportunities for Canadian players 18 Dec 2015 Atiba Hutchinson is anchoring the midfield for Besiktas, currently in first place in the Turkey’s top division. Before that, he spent years as the linchpin for PSV Eindhoven. Hutchinson, who was announced as Canada’s male soccer player of the year Friday, understands that he’s kind of gone where no Canadian has gone before. And, looking at rosters across Europe, we …
As he joins TFC, Will Johnson has glowing things to say about Portland 18 Dec 2015 He’s won MLS Cups. He’s been an MLS All-Star. He’s an MLS team captain. And, when healthy, he’s an automatic Canadian national-team starter. So there’s nothing wrong with the fact that his first interaction with the media as a Toronto FC midfielder felt like a bit of a victory lap. He’s earned it.
After several attempts, RailHawks finally land Canadian Drew Beckie 18 Dec 2015 A trade offer was made by the Carolina RailHawks during the 2015 season, but a deal couldn’t be finalized. But, after his Ottawa contract expired at the end of the campaign, Beckie finally made the move to North Carolina. The team announced Beckie’s arrival on Thursday.
Maybe, just maybe, Christine Sinclair has an heir out there 14 Dec 2015 But, if there’s a positive to come out of the first two games of the Natal Tournament in Brazil, it’s that we may, finally, have other scoring options to talk about.
The CONCACAF Women’s U-20 final: A friendly disguised as a championship 14 Dec 2015 Daniel Worthington, the coach of the Canadian U-20 women’s team, treated Sunday’s CONCACAF final like a glorified friendly.
Pickett’s penalty perfection: Canada qualifies for the Women’s U-20 WC 11 Dec 2015 Canada booked its spot in next year’s U-20 Women’s World Cup, but the team sure didn’t make things easy on itself.
Herdman hopes that the “mavericks” will make the Canadian women’s team more unpredictable 23 Nov 2015 But Herdman stuck to the mantra that the gaps in women’s football are continually closing, and he said the group-stage games will present their own unique challenges. If Canada was to play one of the bigger CONCACAF nations, it could expect a more free-flowing game. But, we can expect to see a lot of parked buses in the games against Guatemala, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.
They are who we (shoulda) thought they were: A draw in El Salvador a decent result for Canada 17 Nov 2015 But, then, why are so many of us so despondent after getting a point in Central America on a field so choppy, it made pastures seem like Bundesliga-level playing surfaces? Is it because we assumed that El Salvador’s “B” team would be little better than a PDL side?
No grass, no problem: Vancouver’s success has blown away several myths about hosting Canada matches 14 Nov 2015 BC Place offers the advantage of playing on artificial turf. Friday’s game likely has killed the “Canada-will-always-want-to-play-men’s-games-on-grass” argument dead. Now, saying “but they have to play on grass” will be like admitting to people that you own rap-metal records. It’s a dated argument.
Canada kills the wicked witch, while Vancouver gets promise it will host key WCQ against Mexico 13 Nov 2015 Who knew that an exorcism could be achieved with such an ugly goal? Such a beautiful, wonderful, ugly goal, that is.
