Guest Ed Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 is out. Only 7 from the Whitecaps? Throw in 2 from TFC and 1 from the Impact. Kennedy Owusu-Ansah still eligible? Canada 1- G- Adam Street | ENG / West Ham United | Brampton, ON 18- G- Julien Latendresse-Lévesque | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC | Chambly, QC 2- D- Eddy Sidra | GER / FC Energie Cottbus | Edmonton, AB 3- D- Alex Surprenant | CAN / Impact de Montréal | St-Alexandre, QC 4- D- Nana Attakora-Gyan | CAN / Toronto FC | Orangeville, ON 5- D- Adam Straith | GER / Energie Cottbus (on loan from Vancouver Whitecaps FC) | Victoria, BC 6- M- Philippe Davies | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC | Longueil, QC 7- M- Shaun Saiko | ENG / Middlesbrough FC | Edmonton, AB 8- M- Michael Pereira | USA-NCAA / Providence College | London, ON 9- F- Marcus Haber | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC | Vancouver, BC 10- D- Kennedy Owusu-Ansah | GER / Hertha Berlin BSC | Toronto, ON 11- F- Gabriel Gala | CAN / Toronto FC | Brampton, ON 12- M- Brandon Bonifacio | NED / FC Zwolle (on loan) | Vancouver, BC 13- D/M- Fabrice Lassonde | GER / FC Ingolstadt 04 | Mont-Saint-Grégoire, QC 14- M- Derek Gaudet | unattached / sans club | Bayside, NS 15- D/M- Paris Nakajima-Farran | DEN / Næstved BK | Calgary, AB 16- F- Kyle Porter | GER / Energie Cottbus (on loan from Vancouver Whitecaps FC) | Mississauga, ON 17- F- Randy Edwini-Bonsu | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC | Edmonton, AB 19- M- Igor Pisanjuk | HUN / Ferencvárosi Torna Club | Toronto, ON 20- D- Ethan Gage | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC | Cochrane, AB Head of delegation / Chef de délégation : Francis Millien Head Coach / Entraîneur-chef : Tony Fonseca Assistant Coach / Entraîneur adjoint : Mark Watson Goalkeeper coach / Entraîneur des gardiens : Djamel Laarabi Manager / Gérant : Morgan Quarry Equipment manager / Gérant d’équipements : Mike Moretto Video co-ordinator / Coordinateur de video : Vic Mendes Physiotherapist / Physiothérapeute : Dave Foley Physiotherapist / Physiothérapeute : Ted Tilbury Doctor / Docteur : Dr. Michael Campbell Proud partners of the Canadian Soccer Association - Fiers partenaires de l'association canadienne de soccer CanadaSoccer.com | English | Français | Directory | Job Listings | Documents | Partners | Members | CONCACAF.com | FIFA.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyola Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Here's the article with some informations about friendlies and stuff: http://www.canadasoccer.com/news/viewArtical.asp?Press_ID=3514 Équipe U-20 masculine 23 February 2009 Canada announces final U-20 camp and roster before championship Nana Attakora-Gyan Canada’s U-20 team has announced its roster and final camp details before the 2009 CONCACAF Men’s Under-20 Championship in Trinidad & Tobago. The team will group this week in Sunrise, FL before heading off to Macoya, Trinidad & Tobago on 4 March. Canada’s first game is 7 March against Trinidad & Tobago. 'The final camp has arrived and we are going to use it for fine tuning,' said coach Tony Fonseca. 'We are aware of the difficulties of the competition. The opponents are very strong and we know that there is no room for mistakes. This team is ambitious and will be ready to fight for a spot for Egypt 2009.' The top two teams in the four-team group advance to the 13 March semi-final. They also qualify for the FIFA U-20 World Cup Egypt 2009. Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico and Trinidad & Tobago are the four teams in group B; USA, El Salvador, Jamaica and either Honduras or St. Vincent & the Grenadines are the four teams in Group A. Canada will spend roughly one week together in Sunrise, FL to make its final preparations before the confederation championship. In Florida, Canada will play Jamaica on 27 February and USA on 1 March. The team then heads to Trinidad & Tobago where it will play the host on 7 March, Mexico on 9 March, and Costa Rica on 11 March. The CONCACAF final is 15 March 2009 - the first confederation U-20 men’s championship since 1996. Canada won that last championship in 1996 in Saltillo, Mexico. Canada has qualified for each of the last four FIFA U-20 World Cups, including UAE 2003 when it reached the quarter-final stage. Should Canada qualify for Egypt 2009, it will be one of two or three countries (depending if USA also qualifies) participating in its fifth-straight FIFA U-20 World Cup. Brazil has a streak of 15-straight FIFA U-20 World Cups dating back to Australia 1981; USA is trying to make it seven straight since Malaysia 1997; Canada hopes to make it five straight since Argentina 2001. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrennanFan Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 still no Olivier Lecoste Lebuis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyola Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 quote:Originally posted by BrennanFan still no Olivier Lecoste Lebuis. He would be the only surprising omission in my books with Stillo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrennanFan Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Who is our left back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyola Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Alex Surprenant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrennanFan Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 ok, so something like this... -------------Haber -----------------Edwini-Bonsu Gala---------------------------Bonifacio -------------Saiko--Gage ---Suprenant--Straith--Nana--KOA -----------------Street Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Nice to see Gage called, I was worried he'd get snubbed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyson M Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 this is a great roster... no one really missing in my mind? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian-Luca Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Is Stillo injured? He seemed to be in all the recent camps so his admission is a surprise IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TT5 Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Gage played some minutes with the Whitecaps last year... nice to see that rewarded. Same with Edwini-Bonsu. Nice to see a lot of Whitecaps representing. Hope that a largely Canadian development squad doesn't disappear if they get a MLS team. Hopefully TFC Academy can follow that model and develop some good young Canadians instead of buying ones already in the league or from Europe. I know it's about winning and they don't want to always spend the time developing, but developing the talent in the country will only prove to help the teams down the road with more young talent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ag futbol Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 What are the chances any of these qualifiers make it to TV? Hell what are the chances we can dig up a stream on the internet? Will there be enough coverage for us to find anything? US Roster for comparison purposes (note the high level of guys playing in MLS or NCAA). GOALKEEPERS: Sean Johnson (Central Florida), Josh Lambo (FC Dallas), Brian Perk (UCLA). DEFENDERS: Gale Agbossoumonde (unattached), Kyle Davies (Southampton), Jorge Flores (Chivas USA), Aaron Maund (Notre Dame), Amobi Okugo (San Juan Lightning), Anthony Wallace (FC Dallas), Sheanon Williams (unattached; formerly UNC). MIDFIELDERS: Bryan Arguez (Hertha Berlin), Danny Cruz (Houston Dynamo), Dilly Duka (Rutgers), Jared Jeffrey (Club Brugge), Brian Ownby (Virginia), Brek Shea (FC Dallas). FORWARDS: Sam Garza (U. of Denver), Peri Marosevic (FC Dallas), Billy Schuler (North Carolina), Tony Taylor (Jacksonville). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MM2 Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 All but one of the Canadian players are with pro clubs (or have been), while 11 of the Americans are still playing amateur soccer. Though a # of pros like Adu and Altidore haven't been called. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertuzzi44 Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Haber up front? I predict our U20 scoring woes will continue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 quote:Originally posted by BrennanFan Who is our left back? Suprenant OR Paris. Going to be a tough call as will a number of other positions. I would try partnering Haber and Edwini-Bonsu as they will likely play alot together this year instead of playing Randy in the hole. Going to be tough to choose some positions. Saiko should be an attacking midfielder with this team! The position he plays at Middlesbrough, pretty rare for a Canadian. Also Bonifacio scored at Zwolle, is that a sign that he is playing more forward... anyways we should get some good attack from our midfield especially with Gala on the left. And who better to hold it all down then a player who is starting pro at only 17? Ethan Gage should be a good holder in front of the always impressive Attakora-Gyan and our prodigy Adam Street. Probably see that lineup for a while... U20s in 2011 with Gage and Street, U23s in 2012 and probably the senior team pretty soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyola Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 quote:Originally posted by MM2 All but one of the Canadian players are with pro clubs (or have been), while 11 of the Americans are still playing amateur soccer. Though a # of pros like Adu and Altidore haven't been called. I think we have to be carefull with those numbers. First the Americans who are still playing NCAA are all playing for top programs in pretty competitive leagues. Second, I doubt TFC Academy or the Whitecaps Academy are better in term of level of play than the Big East or the ACC teams. On the other end we have some guys with some pro club experience and it can only be good for us. It's tough to know what we can expect from this group but I'm glad we are in a challenging group, we'll see what they are made of... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 quote:Originally posted by loyola I doubt TFC Academy or the Whitecaps Academy are better in term of level of play than the Big East or the ACC teams. Really Loyola? I thought PDL teams were basically NCAA All-Star teams? And Whitecaps Residency did very well against PDL teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyola Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 quote:Originally posted by Ivan Really Loyola? I thought PDL teams were basically NCAA All-Star teams? And Whitecaps Residency did very well against PDL teams. TFC lost to the USA U-17 at some point so you can always find one of those freak results. Academy are U-18 players, I doubt those kids would survive one season in the ACC with players a bit older and bigger. I'm not saying Academies are bad, I think they are great and will help in the development of young players but just like the one they have in Europe you'll see only a few players making it as pro per group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpg75 Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 ^ The Whitecaps did not register a freak result though, they were one of the best teams in the PDL over the course of the entire season and were eliminated in OT by the eventual winner TBay Chill. Anyways, this argument is unnecessary as it doesn't really matter where a player plays so much as how much talent he has. Alot of these US players were in the U17 Residency program in Bradenton and it's only a matter of time before we see most of them turn pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deschamp86 Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 quote:Originally posted by loyola TFC lost to the USA U-17 at some point so you can always find one of those freak results. Academy are U-18 players, I doubt those kids would survive one season in the ACC with players a bit older and bigger. I'm not saying Academies are bad, I think they are great and will help in the development of young players but just like the one they have in Europe you'll see only a few players making it as pro per group. Vancouver's Residency plays in PDL which is against University aged players. TFC's academy plays in the CSL against men. So both of Canada's professional academies are constantly playing against men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyola Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Sorry, I didn't realized the Academy was playing PDL, I thought the PDL team was different one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youllneverwalkalone Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 quote:Originally posted by loyola Sorry, I didn't realized the Academy was playing PDL, I thought the PDL team was different one. I believe you are still somewhat correct, as there were several 19+ players who came in and out of the squad. Although the bulk were from the residency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ag futbol Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Interesting article here: http://www.metronews.ca/halifax/comment/article/187339 I'm guessing he had more to write but had to cut it down for print. Too bad because everything he wrote was interesting. Quote from the end: The bad news is: as it stands now, not one team in the MLS has signed a player from their academy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpg75 Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 "Teams are encouraged to have academies and produce their own talent, but it was only last year when they were allowed to begin signing those players to contracts — and MLS rules state a team can only sign one academy player every three years." This seems to keep getting a lot of play so i will continue to clarify things. Here are the 3 ways MLS teams can sign Academy players: a) Generation Adidas. You can sign one player at a time from your Academy to a GenAd deal. If the player reaches certain playing time benchmarks befor the 3 years are up he "graduates" and the GenAd tag can then be used again. Development Roster. MLS teams can sign 2 players a year to Development contracts, however they have to wait until the players are 20 years old to sign them (stupid rule IMO). c) Discovery claim. An MLS team may claim their player (or a player from another Academy for that matter!) by using a discovery claim. However, the player must be signed to a senior roster contract and cannot be demoted to the Development roster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bettermirror Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 What reasoning has the MLS given to not allow clubs to develop their own players? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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