JesseDart Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Canada should start planning for the qualifiers by playing games with: USA, Paraguay, Chile or Colombia to prepare for Mexico Guatemala, El Salvador or Costa Rica to prepare for Honduras Venezuela, Haiti or Trinidad & Tobago to prepare for Jamaica The opposition suggested are not identical teams, but they have similar styles or quality, athleticism and physicality to the real opponents. These can be mutually beneficial fixtures that can be cost shared or sponsored in order to save costs. Of course, we don't know if these teams will benefit from playing us, but the CSA must ask the question quickly. By the way we have only played twice in Canada in the last 12 months. We have had a total of 15 fixtures... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianSoccerFan Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 ummmm... when exactly is it possible for us to play any additional prep games? We can't get our players back until the Jamaica game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footballfreak Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Mexico is apparently in talks to get their EURO-based players released for a friendly to prepare the team for Honduras. Don't know if it will happen or not though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juby Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 quote:Originally posted by JesseDart Canada should start planning for the qualifiers by playing games with: USA, Paraguay, Chile or Colombia to prepare for Mexico Guatemala, El Salvador or Costa Rica to prepare for Honduras Venezuela, Haiti or Trinidad & Tobago to prepare for Jamaica We should not have any friendlies with the US until we have played them in an official match, our players will be extra motivated next time we play the americans and we do not want to waste that on a friendly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSamurai Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 no FIFA date means no friendlies Hell if they have 2 weeks of prep time I'd be happy. I agree w/ Juby. Better not to play the Gringos until the official qualifier. You know the boys in red will want revenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massive Attack Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 quote:Originally posted by SilverSamurai no FIFA date means no friendlies Yup. It wouldn't surprise me if over 75% of our squad have an official club game the weekend before the Jamaica match. It will be pretty difficult to get most clubs to release their players early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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