Intrinsically Canadian Power Rankings: MLS Week 16/NASL Week 13/USL Week 13 19 Jun 2017 Larin is still comfortably in second place, but Orlando teammate Will Johnson took over the lead.
Referee’s critical error, missed chances cost Eddies in San Francisco 17 Jun 2017 But, on Saturday night, referee Daniel Radford just got it plain wrong. To call a hand-ball in the box, you need to have an essential ingredient: The ball has to make contact with the arm or hand of the offending player.
FC Edmonton prepares for “local derby” in San Francisco 14 Jun 2017 “This is a local derby, this is,” Miller joked. “We could almost walk there or take bikes or whatever. It’s great; it’s a west-coast rivalry, it’s as close as you can be for a rivalry in our league. It does feel like a genuinely short trip.”
Intrinsically Canadian Power Rankings: MLS Week 15/NASL Week 12/USL Week 12 12 Jun 2017 Three Canadian keepers all made their season debuts: Nathan Ingham started Wednesday and Saturday for FC Edmonton, as he looks (for now) to have at least a loose grip on the No. 1 position with the club. Marcel DeBellis, formerly of the Ottawa Fury, got into a game for the Richmond Kickers; and Marco Carducci finally got his chance to start for Rio Grande Valley.
Intrinsically Canadian Power Rankings: MLS Week 14/NASL Week 11/USL Week 11 5 Jun 2017 Cyle Larin and Will Johnson have run away and hid at the top of the minutes-played-by-Canadians-in-MLS list.
Intrinsically Canadian Power Rankings: MLS Week 13/NASL Week 10/USL Week 10 29 May 2017 So far this season, Toronto FC looks to have shaken the “finalists’ curse” that has haunted so many MLS Cup runners-up in the past.
Intrinsically Canadian Power Rankings: MLS Week 12/NASL Week 9/USL Week 9 22 May 2017 There were some other interesting Canadian storylines that developed over the weekend. In the loss to Vancouver, Canadian Tyler Pasher made his MLS debut, playing 45 minutes for Sporting Kansas City.
Intrinsically Canadian Power Rankings: MLS Week 11/NASL Week 8/USL Week 8 15 May 2017 But no one matched Tosaint Ricketts, who scored three times in two matches for Toronto FC. He scored two match-winning goals, as the Reds grew their winning streak to six games.
Deltas claim an, ahem, Canadian Derby win over FC Edmonton 14 May 2017 The first edition the NASL’s unofficial Canadian derby went to San Francisco Deltas.
Dos Santos on CanPL: It “cannot be an amateur league that we call professional” 14 May 2017 On Sunday, he said if the league is done right, it will be a great benefit to the development of soccer Canada.