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Thursday, September 14, 2006

U17s depart for Bradenton

Ottawa, Ontario – The Canadian Men’s U17 National Team will continue their preparations for qualifying for the FIFA U17 World Cup Korea 2007 next week in Bradenton, Florida with two matches against the United States at the IMG Sports Academy. The matches will take place on Thursday, September 21st and Saturday, September 23rd both at 10am.

Having just returned from the Caribbean Youth Cup in Trinidad and Tobago, Head Coach, Stephen Hart has again tinkered with his roster in an effort to see as many potential players as possible in the lead up to qualifying next April.

Goalkeeper, Adam Street of West Ham United, who started Canada’s first match at last year’s CONCACAF Qualifying Tournament before succumbing to a calf injury, returns to the fold for the first time since the event. He is joined by newcomers Octavio Maginnis Castro of Alberta and Adrian Pena and Kyle Porter of Ontario.

The team will depart for Bradenton on Saturday, September 16th for a brief training camp leading up to the matches.

“The USA has consistently been one of the better teams at the U16/17 age group,” explained Hart. “So playing them at home will be valuable experience for the players.”

The 2007 CONCACAF U17 Qualifying Tournament is set for next April where Canada will join Mexico, USA, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, hosts Jamaica and Honduras along with two qualifiers from Central America to compete for five places in the FIFA U-17 World Cup Korea 2007 taking place from August 18-September 8. The young Canadians will be looking to qualify for their first U-17 World Cup since the 1995 championship in Ecuador.

Roster – CANADA

Pos/Complete Name/Club/Date of Birth/Hometown/Province

GK/STREET, Adam/West Ham United FC (England)/07-Jul-91/Brampton/ON

D/STRAITH, Adam/National Training Centre - British Columbia/11-Sep-90/Victoria/BC

D/TANNOUS, Daniel/National Training Centre - Ontario/13-Apr-90/Thornhill/ON

MF/DAVIES, Philippe/National Training Centre - Quebec/12-Dec-90/St-Hubert/QC

D/SMITH, Greg/National Training Centre - British Columbia/07-Mar-90/N. Vancouver/BC

D/MAGINNIS CASTRO, Octavio/National Training Centre - Prairies/03-Feb-90/Edmonton/AB

F/JOHNSTONE, Marcus/National Training Centre - Prairies/27-Mar-90/Edmonton/AB

MF/SYLLA, Mohamed/National Training Centre - Quebec/14-Apr-90/Pierrefonds/QC

F/TRAVERSY, Garrett/National Training Centre - British Columbia/07-May-90/North Delta/BC

MF/F/SEMENETS, Oleksandr (Alex)/National Training Centre - Ontario/10-Mar-90/Missisauga/ON

F/MAHLI, Dalvir/National Training Centre - British Columbia/2-Jan-90/Surrey/BC

D/KIJOWSKI, Daniel/National Training Centre - Quebec/19-May-90/Montreal/QC

D/PARENTEAU-MICHON, Colin/National Training Centre - Quebec/15-Jul-90/Montreal/QC

D/MF/HYDE, William/National Training Centre - Ontario/25-Oct-90/Oakville/ON

MF/GUNENC, Devin/National Training Centre - British Columbia/11-Feb-90/N. Vancouver/BC

F/PORTER, Kyle/National Training Centre - Ontario/19-Jan-90/Mississauga/ON

F/PENA, Adrian/National Training Centre - Ontario/05-Nov-90/Woodbridge/ON

GK/LATENDRESSE-LEVESQUE, Julien/National Training Centre - Quebec/27-Feb-91/Chambly/QC

Staff

Complete Name/Duties/Hometown/Province

HART, Stephen/Head Coach/Halifax/NS

CLARK, Ray/Assistant Coach/Cambridge/ON

MULDOON, Kevin/Equipment Manager/Goalkeeper Coach/Oakville/ON

LAARABI, Djamel/IT Specialist/Montreal/QC

NUTT, Dave/National Teams Administrator/Ottawa/ON

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It pretty much confirms that Adam Street is indeed with the West Ham United youth academy.

I thought that Philippe Davies was with Dijon in France.

It's interesting to see the kind of preparations those kids are getting. Ballymena, CFU Cup (twice), New Zealand series in late 2005, now 2 games against the USA. Good stuff.

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Many players are getting exposure I think that is great. I don't pay much attention to the youth teams, except for looking at their progress. The more players that play at this level the better for the future IMHO.

I heard from a good source that the Mexican team in the Caribbean Cup had over 18 days together before they went to the tournament. The same for Haiti who apparently are well funded. More and more Nations are taking the youth programs seriously. If you really want to see preparation look on the US Soccer site. They have played more games in 6 months than Canada teams play in two years.

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Yeah, I saw the U17 USA schedule...amazing. Mexico is world champion at this level so I guess they are taking training seriously.

I don,t think we can give our players the same treatment yet but I think it's good to see our U17's and U20's having a lot more games then what they were used to.

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I know a few of these lads and Hart is putting together one of his strongest units yet. This is the type of momentum-building opps that the U17s need, and often. A number of players move in and out of this pgm so it would never become a dull affair. There is no such thing as a "friendly", especially at this level. I'd rather have our U17s play a dozen matches throughout the year against the U17 MNT than all the Caribbean Cups you can throw our way.

As mentioned above, for those of you who have not studied the US soccer website, you need to. Their U17 players live in residency in FLA - eat, sleep, train together. That's how seriously they take it. Following in the footsteps of football clubs around the world... just in better weather conditions and state-of-the-art training environment. Come on you U17s!!

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Opponents at the CFU Cup:

Mexico

Jamaica

Panama

El Salvador

T&T "B"

Bermuda

Not a bad group of teams (except for the last 2). Pretty good to be playing against tough CONCACAF competition at this young age IMO.

Like I've said the uSA residency program is awesome but I think Canada should concentrate on having the third best development program in CONCACAF at this level. I don't believe we can have a program like that at this time.

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quote:Originally posted by loyola

Opponents at the CFU Cup:

Mexico

Jamaica

Panama

El Salvador

T&T "B"

Bermuda

Not a bad group of teams (except for the last 2). Pretty good to be playing against tough CONCACAF competition at this young age IMO.

Like I've said the uSA residency program is awesome but I think Canada should concentrate on having the third best development program in CONCACAF at this level. I don't believe we can have a program like that at this time.

Way behind the rest Costa Rica & Panama have their players Monday to Friday. they return home on the weekend to play with their clubs. This is a great idea. Someone wrote Guatemala and El Salvador are doing something similar since they both have a National centre with dorms.

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I know I've gone on about the Carb Cup in the past. I didn't like the idea of it this year, although they did get to play against some better opposition in their final round... and unfortunately the results were not favourable. At least lessons to draw upon. Better than last yr's fiasco of lop-sided victories, as well as this yr's early rounds.

I am looking at it, as skewed as it may be, in terms of bettering the side as well as budgetary constraints:

1) Putting our U17s together for just a few days at a time appears to be unavoidable given the length and breadth of our great land and the idiosyncracies of our various NTCs do not always help as Mr Hart gets little time to judge talent himself. Then there is the political game: relatively equal proportions of QC, ON & BC players, and a few Prairie boys tossed into the mix. Sorry for the tangent, but team selection appears to be stifled to nth degree. A lot for Mr Hart to sift through but has done a great job of moving players in and out and giving them an fair opp to showcase themselves;

2) Budget: travel, training expenses would be put to great use if our youth squads could get more exposure to their US counterparts. Not all matches, but definitely the primary source. Especially with our stronger dollar, travelling, housing, training and playing against US squads appears effective. And... having us reciprocate would not be a problem and would be welcomed

We have a unique opportunity, from a training and budgetary standpoint, to increase these match-ups. Let's take it.

Just a thought, guys.

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