Haworth hopes PDL success earns him a shot to make Ottawa Fury’s inaugural NASL side 9 Jul 2013 But, next season, he wants to be terrorizing NASL defenders. He wants to remain in Ottawa, but make the move up to the full pro ranks with the Fury’s expansion side, which begins NASL play in 2014.
Impact players admit fatigue a factor in latest draw, this time to lowly Chivas USA 8 Jul 2013 “We’re going through a bit of a tough phase at the moment. There’s a lot of physical fatigue and a bit of mental fatigue as well. It’s a long season and you have to expect some periods like the one we’re going through but we have to stay the course and play through them,” said Camara.
Goals aplenty as rivals Toronto and Montreal battle to wild draw 4 Jul 2013 "Generally a team has to really work hard to score goals against us… Three goals, I'm extremely disappointed about. We haven't conceded three all season and that hurts me horrendously. But that's the best team in the East."
Schallibaum suspended, Nelsen fined ahead of Impact-TFC match 3 Jul 2013 Marco Schallibaum will not be coaching the Montreal Impact Wednesday night as it faces Toronto FC at BMO Field.
Impact blows pair of leads, loses first home match of the season 30 Jun 2013 “You get punished in this league for a mistake and we certainly did,” Brovsky declared. “It’s not one guy on the team, it’s the collective 11. We lost it ourselves. We beat ourselves. It’s something we can learn from and we’re not going to do it again.”
Houston, we have problems: Mistakes help Impact to victory 20 Jun 2013 Coach Marco Schallibaum commented on his team’s performance in very positive terms after the match saying, “We came out like a fireworks display, especially in the first half. We could have had, four, five, or six goals but we didn’t get them and for that we have to congratulate Houston for that."
Impact-ful season: A look at Justin Mapp’s remarkable 2013 campaign 17 Jun 2013 “We didn’t get too much history on Canada growing up in Mississippi but I’ve enjoyed my time here so far and I’m trying to learn as much about it as I can,” he said after practice last week. “It was pretty cool playing in the Canadian Championship and seeing how passionate all the fans are. Our fans especially, and in Toronto and Vancouver as well. They’re very passionate about the Cup.”
Impact can’t recover after early surge from the Columbus Crew 16 Jun 2013 “We were second best the first 20 minutes,” said captain Patrice Bernier. “We played with fire. It’s uncharacteristic of our team. Normally, we’re very hard to play against and today, we seemed to be spread out and not be the same team from the last few games.”
Leduc hopes new Quebec “national” team won’t be a one-off deal 12 Jun 2013 “If we have decent results and we can build on that and we have another tournament next year, we’ll have this precedent to base future teams on. We really hope this is not a one-shot deal. We really hope that this can happen again,” Leduc said.
All about the politics: QSF getting pressure from both sides on turban ban issue 11 Jun 2013 The provincial premier, who leads the separatist Parti Quebecois, stated Tuesday that the Canadian Soccer Association had no right to suspend the QSF, and that the provincial soccer federation has the dominion over the provinces’s footballing affairs.