With Canada booked for Commonwealth U20WWC quarter-final, the comparisons to 2002 will begin 13 Aug 2014 It’s a long shot that 47,784 or more spectators will show up at Commonwealth on Saturday for the Canada-Germany quarter-final. But we know it will be the comparison that will be used by so many members of the Edmonton and the national media.
CSA hopeful that Women’s World Cup will spur NWSL to expand to Canada 16 Jul 2014 “Absolutely. We believe that, after 2015, the interest will be there for at least one city to be a part of NWSL,” said Montopoli. “The interest will merit it…. It certainly presents an opportunity for an owner (in Canada) to be part of NWSL. We have had those initial discussions with NWSL but we’re currently waiting to see the success of 2015 before we get there.”
City of Champions: History on its side 25 Jun 2014 Edmonton has hosted the Commonwealth Games; it’s hosted the World Championships in Athletics. It’s been a part of every major soccer tournament that Canada has hosted — and, in 2015, it will host more Women’s World Cup matches than any other city. The reason for Edmonton’s prominence? Commonwealth Stadium: Even though it was constructed in the 1970s, it still remains the country’s premier sports venue that doesn’t have a roof Canada...
Invincible! Edmonton’s Lam finishes remarkable undefeated season with Kitchee SC 12 May 2014 “It has been a fantastic season,” said Lam in a message from Hong Kong. “Obviously, having clinched the league a few weeks ago took away from the dramatics a bit, but we were very determined to finish undefeated."
The Aviator flies again 17 Mar 2014 Born at the wrong time. Born under a bad sign. If Selenia Iacchelli had any luck at all, she might be as familiar to Canadian women’s soccer followers as Diana Matheson, Sophie Schmidt or Desiree Scott. But, Iacchelli had to wait till she was 27 years of age to break into the Canadian soccer mainstream. Her story is remarkable; filled withbroken limbs, career-path changes and a love of frozen yogurt...
Two trials, no bites 17 Mar 2014 Jordan Ongaro led the PAC-12 in goals scored last season; but, after he was drafted, the Canadian striker found out that his homecoming wasn’t going to be as happy as he’d hoped...
Edmonton City Council green-lights new $1.25M turf for Clarke Stadium 12 Mar 2014 Edmonton’s city council has unanimously green-lighted the plan to tear up the existing turf at Clarke Stadium, and replace it with a new surface in time for the NASL fall season.
FC Edmonton and Clarke Stadium: Le turf est mort, vive le turf! 3 Mar 2014 “Hopefully we’ll just have the four league games left plus Amway Canadian Championship games on the old turf,” said FC Edmonton General Manager Rod Proudfoot. “We felt that council was very thorough today. They had lots of questions. That’s fine with us.”
Edmonton City Council to mull recommendation that would see the end to football lines at FCE matches 27 Feb 2014 FC Edmonton could be playing on brand new football-line-free turf after the NASL World Cup break.
Fath hopes FCE gets its “game changer” — new turf, that is 5 Feb 2014 “For us, this (changing the turf) would be massive,” said Fath. “Last year, we had live national broadcasts on Sportsnet 360, through our own production company, M31. And one of the biggest concerns Sportsnet had was the lines.”