Canada’s men’s team thrashes Dominica, but still has a country to win over 16 Oct 2018 Canadian men’s national lteam coach John Herdman has made it something of a trademark to throw young players right into the mix. With six teenagers seeing the field in Canada’s 5-0 win over Dominica, it appears its steady on with that philosophy.
Anthony Jackson-Hamel making the case he’s Canada’s best striking option 2 Sep 2017 Well, you have to thank coach Octavio Zambrano for going with Anthony Jackson-Hamel as Canada’s striker in the first half of Saturday’s friendly against Jamaica, and then going with Cyle Larin in the second half.
After Gold Cup elimination, what’s next for the Canadian men’s program? 20 Jul 2017 There’s one game scheduled in September in Jamaica and with no World Cup qualifiers or Gold Cup games of any sort for years, the program will have to try and continue developing on friendlies.
Jackson-Hamel scores winner for Canada after Hoilett’s penalty miss 13 Jun 2017 Junior Hoilett messed up his chance to be the hero — so Anthony Jackson-Hamel got the cape, instead.
Canada scores four in romp over Mauritania 6 Oct 2016 So, of course, in its first friendly since elimination from World Cup qualifying, the Canadian side would score three goals over the course of six minutes.
Another cycle gone 15 Sep 2016 Like so many before, this World Cup-qualification campaign ended in bitter disappointment; once again, Canada couldn’t survive a tough road schedule and CONCACAF gamesmanship
Canada wins the game, loses the war — another World Cup shot vapourizes 6 Sep 2016 Really, the fact that Honduras got a point out of a 0-0 draw in Mexico eases the pain. By getting a point, Honduras made sure that Canada could not catch it for second place in CONCACAF’s Group A — and get that spot in the Hex.
Awesome Uzbek own goal gives Canadian men a victory 7 Jun 2016 We have all seen some fantastic own goals, but Akramjon Komilov’s effort deserves some applause.
Some Kind of Terrible: Canada bullied by a superior Mexican side 25 Mar 2016 Life isn’t like a John Hughes film. In real life, the socially awkward guy who listens to Echo and the Bunnymen doesn’t end up with the most popular girl in high school. In real life, if the scrawny kid challenges the neighbourhood bully to a fight, he comes home with his own blood on his shirt and there’s fewer teeth in his mouth than he began the day with.
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.