Puerto Rico’s World Cup callups will have major effects on FC Edmonton, Impact 28 Aug 2011 The Impact goes to Bayamon on Sept. 7, one day after the Puerto Rican national team plays Canada in a World Cup qualifier. Seven members of the Islanders will be on national-team duty. As well, the team’s top scorer, Jonathan Fana, will be on World Cup qualifying duty for his Dominican Republic national side.
FC Edmonton loses heartbreaker while Impact keeps charging 28 Aug 2011 FC Edmonton gave up a heartbreaking injury-time goal in 3-2 loss in Puerto Rico, while the Montreal Impact cruised to a 2-0 victory in Minnesota.
The case for NASL content on the Canadian national team 23 Aug 2011 What would be most interesting is whether or not Hart looks to the NASL ranks — especially for players who would have had experience playing the Puerto Rico Islanders. He said in August that, if players are doing well and getting regular time, he’d look to Div.-2.
FC Edmonton set to begin two-day trek to Puerto Rico 23 Aug 2011 FCE didn’t train Tuesday as it prepared for two days of travel. On Wednesday, the team will fly to Minneapolis, then connect on a flight to Atlanta. The club will spend Wednesday night in Atlanta, before heading on a flight to Puerto Rico. By the end of the trip Thursday, the team will have spent three days away from the practice field. If you could fly from Edmonton to Puerto Rico direct, you are looking at about a seven- hour flight. But it is broken up into three chunks — and FC Edmonton isn’t flying charter.
Seven games left… can the Impact catch FC Edmonton? 15 Aug 2011 While it’s still improbable that the Impact will overhaul FC Edmonton for the last playoff spot, FCE’s recent struggles have made the race a lot more interesting than it needed to be.
Pitchkolan’s goal extends FC Edmonton’s losing streak to five 7 Aug 2011 FC Edmonton’s losing streak has grown to five games, as Aaron Pitchkolan’s last-gasp wonder strike gave the Puerto Rico Islanders a 1-0 win at a rain-soaked Foote Field Saturday.
FC Edmonton vents frustration over losing streak in spirited training session 3 Aug 2011 FC Edmonton’s training session at Foote Field Wednesday was more, ahem, spirited than usual. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. To see some tough tackles and a few curse words uttered on the pitch is a sign that the team isn’t taking its current four-game losing streak all that well. In fact, it’s comforting to see that FC Edmonton isn’t getting comfortable with poor results.
Impact breaks winless skid with 1-0 decision over 10-man Islanders 31 Jul 2011 By the time the whistle blew ending the hostilities, both streaks had come to an end as the hosts took the game by a 1-0 score with 38-year-old Eddy Sebrango giving his team the win and taking the team scoring lead with three goals and six points despite having played in only six of the Impact’s 18 games thus far.
Impact gets improved effort in scoreless draw with Islanders 30 Jun 2011 A change is as good as a rest. For the Montreal Impact, that old adage certainly held true as they provided fans with their best effort in some time, coming away from their match with the Puerto Rico Islanders with a scoreless tie in front of a crowd announced at just over 10,000 at Stade Saputo.
Sebrango comes out of short-lived retirement to help revive Impact 29 Jun 2011 When Eduardo Sebrango announced his retirement from soccer earlier in April, he was stuck on 98 career Div. 2 goals. He wasn’t going to make 100. Stop the presses. Sebrango will be going for goals 99 and 100 — and, for the offensively challenged Montreal Impact, they can’t come soon enough. The 38-year-old’s retirement lasted just a little bit more than two months.