2008 Canadian player awards

[turbo]

2008 Canadian Player Awards

http://www.canadasoccer.com/eng/media/viewArtical.asp?Press_ID=3455

My picks would be:

Candace Chapman(WWC)

Jonelle Filigno(U20)

Rachel Lamarre(U17)

They all had an outstanding year

What do you think?

[squid2]

Female Nominees from the Winners – Women’s national team

I went other = Sydney Leroux

u20 = Erin McNulty – Winnipeg, MB

u17 = Bryanna McCarthy – Ajax, ON

[turbo]

Sydney Leroux!

That's a good one.

[Vic]

1) Back to your original proposition, I guess it goes by what is deserving? How much is the final exam worth? Is a World Cup performance 100%? How much is CONCACAF worth? What is the value of a high turnover rate and missing a bunch of sitters but potting a goal? What is the value of stopping attackers for 3 games straight and giving the best player in the world an inch from outside the box?

Also they say the award is for national and club achievements, but don't tell you which club they even played for?

2) 2008 was the year of the Chapman.

3) On the women's side there's not much of an argument against Candace Chapman.

4) In the U20 program there are a TON of great players. Filigno is the future but Chapman edged her in Chile. No knock on any of them though, it's hard to find your rhythm and perform when the whole thing is a complete mess of shifting personalities, styles and expectations.

5) At the U17's, I really enjoyed watching Lamarre's silky play, I thought she brought more of a dynamic team attack, but I didn't think any of the three strikers stood out far from the others. Ezurike had good results and Cameron was injured but the provider in CONCACAF.

6) I find Lam-Feist's name down as the U17 player of the year offensive.

7) Richard was the best keeper at the World Cup (i.e. best in the world).

8) But the strangest part of the whole thing is the absence of Karli Hedlund.

9) Odd that two of the strongest players at the U17 World Cup aren't even on the ballot, and one who left the team is.

10) I prefer the English approach of a summary/phoyo/bio for each of the players on a squad. They all deserve the PR:

http://www.thefa.com/Womens/EnglandSenior/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2008/12/WomPoty_2008.htm

[Vic]

Lam-Feist wins Canadian U17 Player of the Year.

Does anyone have any information on why she left the U17 program in the Fall before their World Cup? I've never seen it mentioned before which is kind of odd considering it's significance, effect and also relevance to this award.

[turbo]

I know that she made the decision to play for the U20 at the beginning of last year. The only U17 camp she attended was the Toronto camp last March and she did not play due to injury. I don't know where the last minute exit come from, That's just not true.

[Vic]

Turbo, thanks, obviously you're more in the loop. I went by the FIFA.com article from mid-October:

http://www.fifa.com/u17womensworldcup/news/newsid=905613.html

quote:"I was happy with a lot of things but what it really reinforced to me was our weaknesses," he told FIFA.com. "Before the CONCACAF finals, I'd have said to you that we had a pretty deep squad. But just before that tournament we picked up injuries to four or five of our key players and have since found out that we won't have Monica Lam-Feist [a star player who will instead travel with the U-20s to Chile].

The CONCACAF tournament ended July 27. Is that article wrong?

[turbo]

She was no longer in the team before CONCACAF.

If I remember well U20 CONCACAF was held in June more than a month before the U17. The U20 team was set as a residency camp, the team pool was pick long before the world cup. So, that way no U17 player could do both world cups, you had to choose. I think it was a bad choice. You always want your best players to represent the country no matter what their age. New zealand had 6 players in both world cups and done well and some other nation also had players at both. But in Canada we are in a battle between EAST and WEST, U20 vs U17, CSA vs The PROVINCES so we don't get that far even if we are a ''Big Country''.

[Vic]

Well and simply put and truer words were never spoken.

14-17 are tough years for kids, not sure if you're a child, a tween, a teen or an adult and a world outside that expects you to be everything and all four.

Even harder to blame when you add in the sacrifices and costs of committing (money, time, stress, etc). But you like to think we could at least walk the talk of excellence and performance.

[The Ref]

Sinclair player of the year? Give me a break!