Team Canada **spoilers**

[emma_my_girl]

I just watched the Hungary-Canada game a couple of days ago. Now, I may be one of the biggest pescimists when it comes to the Canadian national soccer program, and their reputation as a "competitive" international side.....HOWEVER...after watching the game, I have no choice but to be quite optimistic about the upcoming Gold Cup, and then World Cup qualifiers starting in 2008. Keep in mind, the game was played without THREE regulars in the Canadian side, and although they lost the game 1-0, they could have, and should have easily scored a few goals.

How about this for a starting 11???

HIRSCHFELD- NSALIWA, POZNIAK, BRAZ, JAZIC- STALTERI, DE GUZMAN, HUTCHINSON, McKENNA- RADZINSKI, DE ROSARIO

Wagenaar had an excellent game in goal, and they have players such as Sutton, Reda, Bernier, Serioux, Brennan, Imhof, Hume, Simpson, Friend, Nakajima-Farran, Peters, Grande, Klukowski and Occean to form a 23-man roster easily capable of challenging any national side, and if (when) making it to the World Cup, challenging for a second round birth....

Am I crazy, or do we have something to cheer about in Canada??? If only we could get Jonathan..........

[AloneSoul]

Am I crazy, or do we have something to cheer about in Canada???

you're crazy ;)

[emma_my_girl]

i take it i am alone on this one.....:confused:

[DanneS]

Atiba Hutchinson is a good player. He's been in Helsingborg before where he did well and now he's in Copenhagen.

But I don't know anything about the other players in Team Canada though.
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[AloneSoul]

Lets be honest, Canada has always been a weak team, but the addition of TFC to MLS (and possibly other canadians clubs in the future) might change that.

[LudwigHarvester]

i take it i am alone on this one.....:confused:

Come on, give global warming a few more years to give us some unfrozen pitches from December to March. Then we will catch up. By 2075 we will be the only country with any grass left, along with Siberia. But I guess the rest of the world will have taken up beach soccer by then, to cope with all the sand.

I think the whole soccer thing gives us a real disadvantage in other important areas. Do you ever notice how Czech and other European players will pass the puck with their feet quite often? We need to push "the playing soccer improves your hockey" aspect.


Until we can beat Honduras, Costa Rica, T&T etc nearly every time out, and only have problems with the US and Mexico, we aren't going anywhere.


Canada sign Kyoto, p*ss on that, we're going to grow bananas! :p

[jr!]

With the addition of Toronto FC to MLS we should hopefully see a few Canadian Internationals play together on that team, which should improve their cohesion somewhat. I read Mo-Jo state the other day he may try & get the entire Canadian back 4.

[DanneS]

Canada sign Kyoto, p*ss on that, we're going to grow bananas! :p
Haha we're going to grow coconuts in Sweden... it's easier to play ball with them. :p

Let's face it.... Canada is best in winter sports... like Curling... ;)
but I hope you'll give USA and México a go in football sooner than 2075.

[emma_my_girl]

Well, I hope to God I live past 100, so I can see Canada beat the shorts off of the Mexicans and Americans at World Cup 2078.......... By then, they'll likely have a 64-team World Cup, and FIFA will have over 400 countries.

[adammac_19]

I have been in Canada for a while and I do get to watch their international matches and here is my opinion on them.

Without a domestic league the nation will always have a hard time producing players and I believe that TFC and maybe a couple of teams in Montreal and Vancuver will help keep your players in North America rather than travel across the pond to play in Europe. Like someone mention above one of the great enefit is that if the club sides can keep Canadian players togeather and when maybe help their national side prganize more friendlys since all your player will be kept in the country rather than trying to piece away players from all over the world. Another benefit that I was told of by a mate who follows Canada is that the players become use to the style of reffin that goes on in these parts becasue there are a lot of times that the European based players dont know how the officals work and usally is a dis-advantage.

Rant over :eek:

[tsteling]

Well, I hope to God I live past 100, so I can see Canada beat the shorts off of the Mexicans and Americans at World Cup 2078.......... By then, they'll likely have a 64-team World Cup, and FIFA will have over 400 countries.
Not if Blatter is still FIFA president in 2078 ;)

I'm really not optimistic when Canada loses to Hungary which are in deep crisis now. But on the other hand you still play in CONCACAF zone so if Trynidad and Tobago could have played in Mondial why not Canada.
But hey there is something wrong when I can see Radzinski still in the squad.
I should be glad as he has polish roots but where the young talents are ??

[LudwigHarvester]

...and FIFA will have over 400 countries.

Yeah, but the remnants of Canada will make up five of them.

[chauchey]

I should be glad as he has polish roots but where the young talents are ??
making more money in the business world, after using their futbol scholorship to get a university degree. They arent taken seriously in the EU, so they go to school, and end up making more money than they normaly would playing in the MLS.
Yeah, but the remnants of Canada will make up five of them.It certainly seems to be going in that direction doesnt it?