FIFA World Youth Championships' 05

[Champs]

Well I was just looking threw all the Canadians that will be able to play in the next World Youth Championships. And we still have a very promising team to look forward too.

Player Pool:

Joshua Wagenar (GK)

Asmir Begovic (GK)

Robert Giacomi (GK)

Thomas Lindley (GK)

David Edgar (D)

Andrew Hainault (D)

Simon Kassaye (D)

Dominic Oppong (D/M)

Carlo Schiavioni (D)

Nik Ledgerwood (D/M)

Marcel DeJong (D/M)

Jonathon Trudeau (D)

Juilan Meunier (D)

Giancarlo Disanno (M)

Sherwin Emmanuel (M)

Jaime Peters (M)

Jeremy Shepard (M/F)

Jonathon DeGuzman (M/F)

Franco Lalli (M/F)

Ryan Gyaki (M/F)

Elton Fernandes (M)

Julian Uccello (F)

Johnson Akouko (F)

Andrea Lombardo (F)

Dylan Hughes (F)

Cam Wilson (F)

Riley O'Niel (F)

[Guest Ed]

Add Patrick Kelly to that list. Played 90 minutes every game on the left wing for our U17s until he blew his knee. He will be back soon.

[Ivan]

CSA site says Richard Asante was born in 1985. Therefore, he would be eligible to play.

[Gian-Luca]

With 4 spots available for Concacaf & Canada having qualified for 3 of the last 4, and with the talent coming up through the ranks I think we have to raise the bar for ourselves & expect to qualify for this tourney every time it is held. With Yallop in as Senior team coach, presumably Mitchell will remain as U20 coach, and based on what he did this time around (in comparison to his predecessor) that puts us in a good position.

[Gordon]

quote:Originally posted by Gian-Luca

With 4 spots available for Concacaf & Canada having qualified for 3 of the last 4, and with the talent coming up through the ranks I think we have to raise the bar for ourselves & expect to qualify for this tourney every time it is held. With Yallop in as Senior team coach, presumably Mitchell will remain as U20 coach, and based on what he did this time around (in comparison to his predecessor) that puts us in a good position.

I really like the way Mitchell had the team playing. I know I was criticising him for the mental preparation, and I stand by that - although to a lessor degree - but he had the team prepared and playing a decent brand of football. As Forest said, perhaps the best he's seen any Canadian team play at any level for many years.

[ray]

quote:Originally posted by Gian-Luca

With 4 spots available for Concacaf & Canada having qualified for 3 of the last 4, and with the talent coming up through the ranks I think we have to raise the bar for ourselves & expect to qualify for this tourney every time it is held. With Yallop in as Senior team coach, presumably Mitchell will remain as U20 coach, and based on what he did this time around (in comparison to his predecessor) that puts us in a good position.

Agreed! We have to have the attitude that there are 4 spots for CONCACAF at the World Youth Championship and one of them is reserved for Canada. Anything less is a failure. Mind you the last two qualification tournaments were in favourable weather conditions: Victoria and St. Louis. We have to give our teams the necessary Central American/Caribbean preparation so we can succeed.

I would also say that we need to start qualifying for the U17 FIFA championship as this provides good experience for some of the next U20 squad. We haven't been to the U17 world championship since 1995, I think. We have to do better.

[Gian-Luca]

It was actually Charleston rather than St.Louis, but a good point nonetheless.