Canadian double-dip; Olympic disappointment, rays of light for the senior team 13 Oct 2015 On Tuesday night, Canada's men's national team played Ghana in a friendly in Washington, D.C. while the Canadian U-23 team played the United States in the third-place game of the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament.
Hoilett finally commits to Canada: But can he be the player he once was? 30 Sep 2015 Hoilett has played exactly zero minutes for Queens Park Rangers in the Championship this season. Zero. In QPR’s last nine league games, he was on the bench as an unused sub for five of them, and he was not even in the squad for the other four. He’s made two appearances this year — for a total of 87 minutes — in the League Cup.
Akindele “99.9 per cent” committed to Canada; Floro unhappy with double standard applied to his call-ups and Klinsmann’s call-ups 14 Apr 2015 Even though he needed the aid of a translator — and some of the answers were not delivered in perfect English, Benito Floro let us in the media see some of the frustrations he experiences in coaching the Canadian national team.
Straight outta Brampton 25 Sep 2014 It is home to the likes of Michael Cera, Rick Nash and Rohinton Mistry. It was where premier Bill Davis called home. It’s arguably the lacrosse capital of Canada. And, it’s Canada’s most important soccer city. Why is the suburb lovingly known as ‘Flowertown’ our home of footie?
Canadian owners fall a goal short of the Premiership 28 Jun 2014 But, on the final day of the English season,the two Canadians had their hearts broken when their Derby County side lost 1-0 to Queens Park Rangers in the League Championship play off final.
QPR confirms Canada call-ups for Petrasso and Carreiro 30 Sep 2013 It makes a lot of sense. If new national-team coach Benito Floro is going to have a long hard look at the London, England-based pair, it’s logical that he do so when he will be in London with the national side. The match against Australia will take place at Fulham’s Craven Cottage.
What a difference a season makes: Hoilett goes from hot transfer target to QPR’s fringes 2 Jan 2013 He signed with QPR in the off-season, a move to a London club which had decided to open the wallets. But, so far, it wouldn’t be unfair to speak of the move as disastrous.
Jackson scores for Norwich in EPL’s Region of Peel derby match 25 Aug 2012 Jackson scored on a close-range header in the 11th minute to give his Norwich City side a 1-0 lead over Hoilett’s Queens Park Rangers.
Hoilett’s QPR deal a remarkable feat for a Canadian 27 Jul 2012 But that was still a low-key pursuit, nothing like the free agency of Junior Hoilett which we saw this summer, where he was linked to several Premiership clubs and Bundesliga sides. There was interest in a Canadian player like we haven’t seen before.
Hart already dealing with injured players ahead of June WC qualifiers 10 May 2012 “There are some injury issues, unfortunately, and we will have a couple of players that cannot be part of the campaign,” said Hart. “Marcel de Jong is out and Jonathan Beaulieu-Bourgault is out and we’re waiting on some medical reports on two other players.”