Cheeta Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 Impact de Montreal are the 2008 Voyageurs Cup Champions and will represent Canada in the CONCACAF Champions League. The Nutrilite Canadian Champions join the CCL for Series #7. A home and away preliminary series against the Nicaraguan champions Real Esteli. The winner of Series #7 will advance into Group C of the CCL. Group C will be a four team group with each team playing home and away against the other teams within the group. Matches will be played in September and October. The top two teams will advance to the quarterfinal stage of the CCL to be played in February 2009. Group C will consist of two seeded teams, Altante FC of Mexico and CD Olympia of Honduras as well as the Series #2 winner, New England Revolution of USA or Joe Public of Trinidad & Tobago and the Series #7 winner, Impact de Montreal of Canada or Real Esteli FC of Nicaragua. Series #7</u> August 27th Impact de Montreal vs Real Esteli Stade Saputo, Montreal PQ Radio-Canada Sports coverage begins 7:30 PM EST kick-off 8:00 PM EST 1-0 September 2nd Real Esteli vs Impact de Montreal TBD Radio-Canada Sports tape-delay broadcast 11:00 PM EST 0-0 Group C</u> September 17th Montreal vs Joe Public Stade Saputo, Montreal PQ 8 PM EST CBC 2-0 September 24th Montreal vs Atlante FC Stade Saputo, Montreal PQ 8 PM EST CBC bold, CBCSports.ca 0-0 October 1st CD Olympia vs Montreal Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino Tegucigalpa, Honduras 10 PM EST CBC bold, CBCSports.ca 1-2 October 8th Joe Public vs Montreal Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya, Trinidad 8 PM EST CBC bold, CBCSports.ca 1-4 October 21st Montreal vs CB Olympia Stade Saputo, Montreal PQ 8 PM EST CBC bold, CBCSports.ca 1-1 October 28th Altante FC vs Montreal Estadio Andres Quintana Roo, Cancun, Mexico 8 PM EST CBC bold, CBCSports.ca 2-1 Quarter Final Series D1 vs C2 February 25th, 2009 Montreal vs Santos Olympic Stadium, Montreal PQ 9 PM EST CBC bold, CBCSports.ca 2-0 March 5th, 2009 Santos vs Montreal Estadio Corona, Torreon Mexico 10 PM EST CBC bold, CBCSports.ca 5-2 *(Broadcast information provided as it becomes available). Radio-Canada is the national French language station of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and is available from coast to coast to all Canadians over the public airwaves or as a basic channel through your local cable/satellite service provider. CBC bold is a fee for service digital satellite/cable channel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheeta Posted July 26, 2008 Author Share Posted July 26, 2008 Fingers and toes crossed for Montreal in this upcoming tourney, we should learn quite a bit from it all. As has been mentioned elsewhere the Impact have an absolutely brutal schedule coming up and adding potentially 8 more matches into the mix is going to be murder. Heartless-bloody-murder. For both the squad and the pitch at Stade Saputo. The team has held up so-so this year all things considered but the hardest part of the year has yet to come including opponents and travel of the likes Montreal seldom sees. Don't know enough about Montreal to say where they can draw squad depth from but they better find that place quick and hope for no injuries while they're at it. The wonderful pitch at Stade Saputo is going to be put to the fire should Montreal get into Group C. The grounds keepers have done their job and I'm sure they're learning more each day about pitch maintenance and repair but summer is fading and the grass just won't recover the way it can during the peak growing season. And with potentially a whack of fall dates coming up, wow. Those gardeners are going to have to prove their worth. And will Montrealers come out for autumn football? With make up dates and a couple of late Group C fixtures (October 21 jumps out) we're getting late into the year as far as USL scheduling goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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