Canadians abroad: August 11-17, 2006

[DJT]

Canadians abroad on TV this week

Notes: This list may be incomplete or inaccurate. Generally only premiere broadcasts are listed (in particular, FSWC repeats are not listed). All broadcasts are live unless otherwise noted. All times are EDT.

Wednesday, August 16

7:30 PM on FSWC — United States: Major League Soccer

Columbus vs. Salt Lake (Jack Stewart)

Guidelines for this thread

[*]In this thread post match updates on all Canadians abroad for August 11-17, 2006.

[*]If you find updates posted in some other thread or on the other Voyageurs forum then post them here as well, but be sure to credit the original poster.

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[Ivan]

No sign of Josh Simpson as FC Kaiserslautern win their season opener 1-0 over RW Essen.

[marktci]

Hume comes on in the 86th for Leicester and opens his account in the 90th, scoring the 3rd in a 3-1 win over Ipswich. De Vos plays 90 in the loss. No sign of Peters.

Simeon Jackson comes on in the 75th as Rushden and Diamonds lose 1-0 to Crawley Town.

Kevin McKenna plays 90 in a 2-0 loss for Energie Cottbus to Borussia M'gladbach.

Richard Hastings plays 90 and picks up a yellow in a 0-0 Inverness CT draw with Hibs.

[Ivan]

Blerim Rrustemi played 90 in a 3-0 loss for Gladbach II. O'Conner and Bourgault did not play for 1860 II and St. Pauli respectively. Both are listed on their teams rosters, with Bourgault the youngest St. Pauli player. No sign of Victor Collins for Luebeck - not even on their roster.

[Guest Jeffery S.]

De Guzmán came on m. 71 after the scoring had finished in Depor's 3-0 win over Nacional de Montevideo, in the first semi-final of the Teresa Herrera tournament, Spain's most prestigious summer trophy. They play tomorrow Sunday vs. the winner of the other semi between Atletico de Madrid and AC Milan.

[Ivan]

Something is going on with Olivier Occean at Lillestrom. He was subbed on in min 76 yesterday, in their 1-1 draw with Frederikstad. He was later subbed off in min 89. Headlines on vg.no but I cannot read Norwegian.

[Ivan]

quote:Originally posted by Sigma

Alen Marcina played 90 minutes last night as Puerto Rico tied 1-1 away to Atlanta.

Marcina is fourth in the USL Division 1 in scoring with 9 goals.

[mjoni]

quote:Originally posted by Ivan

Something is going on with Olivier Occean at Lillestrom. He was subbed on in min 76 yesterday, in their 1-1 draw with Frederikstad. He was later subbed off in min 89. Headlines on vg.no but I cannot read Norwegian.

Occean's form has been questionable lately, but he was given a chance, and in extra time had a golden opportunity which should have given Lillestrøm the win and the league lead, but choked. The coach, Uwe Rösler, went ballistic, but then later calmed down and said in interview that it wasn't only Occean's fault that they didn't get the win.

[Ivan]

1860 Munich picked up an away point in a 1-1 draw with Gruether Furth. No sign of Ledgerwood. An earlier report by Ed on BS or Grizzly had him recovering from an injury during training.

[Stu]

Lars was between the pipes again as Rosenborg came away with a 2 - 0 victory away to Molde.

Rosenborg move up to second place 1 point behind Brann.

[loyola]

DeJong played the first half in Roda JC last friendly against Real Zaragoza. It ended 1-1.

[Metro]

Tam Nsaliwa played 90 minutes today in Panionios' 1-1 draw with fellow 1st division rival Aigaleo.

It was Panionios' final friendly before the beginning of the season next weekend and by the looks of things, Nsaliwa has nailed down a starting spot in the "Panthers'" backline.

[canso]

Not in action yet but the season previews are out!

"The future of right-back Paul Stalteri remains in doubt. The Canadian has been fighting what appears to be a losing battle to win over the supporters and the clock is ticking. Jol continues to track Pascal Chimbonda following his stunning debut season at Wigan but Spurs are reluctant to meet the £6million asking price."

[N-A]

Rushden 1:3 Grays Athletic

Simeon Jackson joins the game in the 81 min.

Rushden are now 3rd from last in the Conference.

[canso]

Nice finish from Iain. Haven't seen him in awhile but he looks like a grown man!

[Ivan]

Jack Stewart played 90 at centre back Wednesday night in a 2-1 win for RSL over Columbus. I watched the game on FSWC, so first time I was able to see Stewart play. Big lad, strong tackler, positionally sound. Made a couple mistakes, but looked pretty solid. Didn't appear overly quick, but again played well positionally.

[Ceres]

Perhaps a bit late, but better late than never, and then you get some Superliga highlights as well ..

Round 5:

Superliga, August 12 & 13 :

FC København - OB Odense 1-1 (0-1)

0-1 Tobias Grahn (32)

Red card: Tobias Grahn,OB (62)

1-1 Michael Gravgaard (83)

Attendance: 16,232

Match facts:

http://www.netsuperligaen.dk/kampref.php?ID=2126

OB Odense was the better playing and most dangerous looking team in the first half, so it was deserved that it was Tobias Grahn scoring the first goal of the match, but unfortunately for OB, same Grahn went from hero to being the bad guy in the 2nd half when he was shown a yellow card for diving, perhaps intentionally tripping over his own legs, and then a bit later making a foul on Jesper Grønkjær, earning him his 2nd yellow card. You could argue if the first yellow card was a bit harsh, but the red card to Grahn totally turned this match around, since the FCK coach then moved Michael Gravgaard from defense to attack and it from then on was FCK looking dangerous and being in control, totally dominating a 10 men OB who had big trouble keeping FCK from scoring. Gravgaard secured the draw for FCK by a header and an excellent assist by Grønkjær, while Swedish international Tobias Linderoth unfortunately saw his shot hit the woodwork. Like the rest of the team it was not really the best of games for Atiba Hutchinson either.

As you probably know, then FCK unfortunately lost their 1st leg match to Ajax, mainly due to Klaas Jan Huntelaar scoring by two ½-chances for the Dutch team, which only make it more regrettable that FCK chose to sell their Brazilian topscorer Álvaro Santos to Sochaux for around €3 million, just before this 3rd CL qualifier. Especially since FCK dont need the money and would not be able to find a good replacement in time for this tie. But they have not been quite happy with the progress Santos had made the past few years, so they sold him when they got a good offer.

FCK have now signed his replacement, the 21-yo Brazilian Ailton Almeida from the Swedish Allsvenskan side Örgryte. Ailton has shown to be a big youth Star in Swedish football, scoring 25 goals in 45 games for his Swedish team. The transfer fee is said to be €3 million + ?% of the transfer fee if ge gets sold + FCK unfortunately having to wait until January to get him. So they are not going to be able to make use of him in the EC at this point in time, but they asked coach Solbakken who he would like as the replacement for Santos and he told them that Ailton Almeida was on top of his wanted list, so they went to get him as quickly as possible.

Highlights:

http://www.dr.dk/extention/playWindowsMedianyheder.aframe?id=223083&ListType=nyheder&trace=off

or

http://www.dr.dk/player/Player.asp?subsite=nyheder&WMPVer=9.0.0.2980&id=223083&name=&video=#

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FC Nordsjælland - Vejle BK 1-0 (1-0)

1-0 Danny Olsen (31)

Match facts:

http://www.netsuperligaen.dk/kampref.php?ID=2128

It was one of the most attacking minded and most scoring Superliga team against the poorest defense in the league, so you would expect a big victory to FCN against newly promoted Vejle. However, despite FCN clearly dominating this match they also misused their chances, so Vejle got away with a small defeat. But Issey Nakajima-Farran and the rest of newly promoted Vejle are not surprisingly at the bottom of the Superliga.

Highlights:

http://www.dr.dk/extention/playWindowsMedianyheder.aframe?id=223086&ListType=nyheder&trace=off

or

http://www.dr.dk/player/Player.asp?subsite=nyheder&WMPVer=9.0.0.2980&id=223086&name=&video=#

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Randers FC - Brøndby IF 1-1 (0-1)

0-1 Kim Daugaard (13)

1-1 Baye Djiby Fall (67)

Match facts:

http://www.netsuperligaen.dk/kampref.php?ID=2129

No Canadians here , but perhaps still interesting in Atiba Hutchinson and FCK's fight to become Danish Champions. Just like last season, Brøndby still seem to have big trouble when playing in Jutland. Though Brøndby did dominate the first half of this match, it was Randers being the better team in the last 45 minutes and also producing some big opportunities against a not all that solid looking Brøndby defense.

Unlike FCK, then Brøndby have not really signed some big top class reinforcement in this transfer window, but only the rather unknow 25-yo Haitian international (10 caps) Jean-Phillipe Puegero from Red Bull New York (€800k transfer fee) plus some very talented but still very young Manchester United defenders, Mark Howard ( 3-year contract) and Adam Eckersley (on a 1-year loan deal). They have also signed the highly rated Australian U20 international David Williams, who is said to be the new 'Mark Viduka', but he's only 18, so I guess it will take some time for him to make his mark in the superliga. So far he has only got to play 6 minutes .

At the same time Brøndby have sold their Swedish international (19 caps, 7 goals) Johan Elmander to Toulouse (€5 million transfer fee) and the two Danish U21 NT talents Jonas Kamper to Armenia Bielefeld (€400k transfer fee) and Johan Absalonsen to OB Odense (€?), so it not very likely that Brøndby can be much of a threat to FCK's dream of a Danish Championship this season.

Highlights:

http://www.dr.dk/extention/playWindowsMedianyheder.aframe?id=223084&ListType=nyheder&trace=off

or

http://www.dr.dk/player/Player.asp?subsite=nyheder&WMPVer=9.0.0.2980&id=223084&name=&video=#

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[b]Danish Superliga 2006/07 (5 of 33 rounds):[/b]

[b]   Club             G   W D L   Gf-Ga   P[/b] 

1  FC Nordsjælland  5   4 0 1   13-5   12 

2  AaB Ålborg       5   4 0 1   11-3   12 

3  Brøndby IF       5   3 2 0    9-4   11

4  FC Midtjylland   5   3 2 0    9-4   11

5  FC København     4   3 1 0    9-3   10  

6  Esbjerg fB       5   2 1 2    9-9    7

7  OB Odense        5   1 3 1    6-6    6

8  Randers FC       4   1 2 1    3-7    5   

9  Silkeborg IF     5   1 0 4    5-11   3

10 AC Horsens       5   0 2 3    3-8    2 

-----------------------------------------

11 Viborg FF        5   0 1 4    6-12   1 

12 Vejle BK         5   0 0 5    4-15   0 

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[Daniel]

quote:Originally posted by Ivan

Jack Stewart played 90 at centre back Wednesday night in a 2-1 win for RSL over Columbus. I watched the game on FSWC, so first time I was able to see Stewart play. Big lad, strong tackler, positionally sound. Made a couple mistakes, but looked pretty solid. Didn't appear overly quick, but again played well positionally.

What's his Canadian connection?

[Ivan]

I am not entirely sure Daniel. From what I have read, he was raised in California (IIRC). However, he attended the last Canadian National Team training camp in Florida at Yallop's invitation. Again, not sure why, but he is apparently eligible for Canada.