Fury suffocates Eddies, then wins it late 2 Aug 2015 But what was striking about Sunday’s game is how much Fury coach Marc Dos Santos learned from this past spring’s Amway Canadian Championship loss to the Eddies, then used that knowledge to craft a game plan that neutralized one of the top offences in the league.
Hit the North! Eddies rout nine-man San Antonio 5 Jul 2015 But, while the Eddies started off the game shorthanded, it was the San Antonio Scorpions who finished with just nine men on the field. And they faced a sombre 4,000-km-plus trip home to Texas from oil-sands territory after receiving a 4-0 hiding from the Eddies to open the NASL fall season.
Laing: “I know FCE is doing its best to keep me here” 30 Jun 2015 Midfielder Lance Laing says that he’s hopeful that he can play in FC Edmonton’s NASL fall-season opener before he needs to report back to the Jamaican national side.
The Walking Eds: Injuries may force FCE to bring a skeleton squad to Fort McMurray 30 Jun 2015 FC Edmonton coach Colin Miller has been involved in professional soccer for more than three decades. He said Tuesday that, at no time in his career, has he been involved in an injury crisis as severe as the one FC Edmonton is in right now.
Roberts: The thrill of playing for Canada took a couple of minutes to kick in 19 Jun 2015 “I don’t want to be the player who was only called into one game,” he said. “The experience, it was huge. I gained a lot of experience from it. There are so many players there who have careers in Europe, from around MLS and other teams in North America. I can see that’s where I want my career to go.”
Goalkeeper sub the talking point of FCE’s spring-season finale 13 Jun 2015 The analysis of FC Edmonton’s spring-season finale — a 3-0 loss on the road to the Indy Eleven — has to begin by looking at the decision to yank keeper John Smits at halftime.
No signal: NASL’s Canadian broadcast woes highlighted by FCE/Rowdies match 6 Jun 2015 So, this is the challenge. On Monday morning, when NASL executives get into the office, the first order of business is how to get the Canadian mess sorted it out. After all, it is the North American Soccer League, not American Soccer League.
Chile reception: FC Edmonton’s Lance Laing off to Copa America 2 Jun 2015 FC Edmonton left winger Lance Laing will be heading to South America.
Canadian stalemate: Fury shuts out Eddies’ NASL-leading offence 29 May 2015 “Escape” is the appropriate word, because FCE keeper John Smits, making his second start in a row, made two outstanding point-blank second-half saves, to give the Eddies their first clean sheet of the season — in Cup or NASL play.
It “could have been 9-6”: Eddies win high-scoring affair, but Smits named man of the match 24 May 2015 It’s not often when there are six goals in a game — and the winning team scores four of them — that a goalkeeper is named the man of the match.