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I was going to start a thread on this very topic. Duane Rollins has provided a nice list of top 20 school players on his blog:

http://www.24thminute.com/2010/08/canadian-ncaa-d-1-list-for-2010.html

Michael Nonni – F - UC Santa Barbara (8th) – West Vancouver – So.

Shomesh Chaudhuri – M – Harvard (10th) - Heidelberg, Ont. – Sr.

Kyle Bekker – M – Boston Collage (12th) – Oakville – So.

Justin Baarts – GK – Portland (19th) – Surrey – So.

Ben Hemphill – F – Portland (19th) – White Rock, BC – So.

Jonathan Goodridge – D – Connecticut (22nd) – Toronto - Fr.

Nassim Berhouni – F - North Carolina-Wilmington (23rd) – Montreal – Sr

Etienne Boulanger – M - North Carolina-Wilmington (23rd) – Ste-Julie, QC – So.

Thanks to Duane for going through the rosters and finding these guys. I'm sure there are more out there on lesser teams. Please post more players you know of and updates here.

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Kyle Bekker (Boston College) scored in his first game of the season against Hartford in a 3-2 win.

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He played 90 minutes in a 1-0 loss to Duke on September 25

- " Kyle Bekker also nearly scored twice. The 5-foot-9, 160-pound product of Oakville, Ontario, connected with Boston College's first shot off the post in the ninth minute. Bekker later nearly beat Belshaw with a dangerous shot that missed by the far post in the 74th minute."

On September 28 Bekker played against Connecticut in a 2-0 loss. No Goodridge for Connecticut

-"Sophomore midfielder Kyle Bekker notched a team-high four shots and nearly missed netting his second goal of the season in the 78th minute with a left-footed strike from 26 yards out that sailed just high.

On October 1 he played another 90 minutes in midfield in a 4-3 win over NC State.

Next up is Clemson on friday.

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i thought there were like 3-4 guys on the tfc academy alone that were going to american colleges? matheson, stinson and a few others... i will look into this.

http://www.24thminute.com/2010/08/tfca-players-go-to-college.html

Matt Stinson – Winthrop University (D-1)

Brennan McNicoll – Rutgers University (D-1)

Allando Matheson – Jr College/Prep School in Connecticut for 6 months until he can sign for UCONN (D-1)

Garrett Cyprus – Prep School for a year before transferring to Harvard or another Ivy League School

Daniel Fabrizi – York (CIS)

Casey D’Mello – York (CIS)

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UAB (alabama at birmingham) has always had a tradition of recruiting Canadians. They're in one of the toughest conference in the country ( conference usa )

currently, they have 3 canadians.

Curtis Ushedo - senior defender, team captain. 2 goals so far this year

Babayele Sodade - junior forward, 6 goals so far

Flo Liu - sophmore defender, 4 assists

looks like they're doing well as UAB has been ranked in several polls

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UAB (alabama at birmingham) has always had a tradition of recruiting Canadians. They're in one of the toughest conference in the country ( conference usa )

currently, they have 3 canadians.

Curtis Ushedo - senior defender, team captain. 2 goals so far this year

Babayele Sodade - junior forward, 6 goals so far

Flo Liu - sophmore defender, 4 assists

looks like they're doing well as UAB has been ranked in several polls

Isn't that Dejan Jakovic former school?

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A list taken from Philippe Germain's blog published about a month ago.

http://soccerphil.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/moins-de-canadiens-et-moins-de-quebecois-en-ncaa/

Les joueurs québécois en question sont l’attaquant sherbrookois Santigui Tounkara (SUNY-Binghampton), le milieu de terrain Mehdi Belakehal (SUNY-Stony Brook) de St-Hubert, les attaquants montréalais Berian Gobeil (SUNY-Stony Brook), Nassim Berhouni (UNC-Wilmington) et Sean Rosa (Brown) et le milieu de terrain Étienne Boulanger (UNC-Wilmington) de Sainte-Julie.

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allando is at avon old farms school in conneticut. it looks like they have played about 4-5 games and he already has at least two goals. http://www.avonoldfarms.com/page.cfm?p=94&teamID=7&display=Schedule

I see only 3 goals so far... I wonder if he is just biding his time waiting to sign for UCONN? For a guy who has played a match (or more?) for TFC, scored 7 goals iin the CSL and has impressed people enough to be in the national program you'd expect more.

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A list taken from Philippe Germain's blog published about a month ago.

http://soccerphil.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/moins-de-canadiens-et-moins-de-quebecois-en-ncaa/

Les joueurs québécois en question sont l’attaquant sherbrookois Santigui Tounkara (SUNY-Binghampton), le milieu de terrain Mehdi Belakehal (SUNY-Stony Brook) de St-Hubert, les attaquants montréalais Berian Gobeil (SUNY-Stony Brook), Nassim Berhouni (UNC-Wilmington) et Sean Rosa (Brown) et le milieu de terrain Étienne Boulanger (UNC-Wilmington) de Sainte-Julie.

Interesting to see that the Stony Brook and UNC players came from Champlain Saint Lambert College - They must have an "in" at these programs which will help filter more QC players in the NCAA

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Another noteable player in the NCAA is Jelani Smith, Florida Gulf Coast University. He was apart of the U-20 National Team that was in Netherlands early in the year. This team is ranked No.23 in the Nation with Wins over, Drexel, Ohio State, and USF for some of the noteables. This team also ranks 12th in RPI. There a young team, 4th year as a program, so they aren't eligible for the tournament as yet. However they last weekend clinched the Atlantic Sun conference tittle. So he's another promising youth to watch.

He was also placed 14th in the conference for "Players to watch list" http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer/college-conference-top-

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Ethan Finley, Creighton University

http://www.gocreighton.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=1000&ATCLID=1554592

His father Brent is Canadian and played Hockey at U. of N. Dakota. Ethan was born in 1990 in Minnesota and grew up in Wisonsin. He was a Top-30 College recruit playing for FC Milwaukee and Wisonsin ODP. 6G and 4A as a Freshman, 8G and 3A as a Sophomore. Currently sitting on 12G and 4A as a Junior through 18 games and is being viewed as a probable Generation Adidas prospect for the MLS Draft.

Tony Fonseca should give him a call for the next Olympic Team Camp.

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Should we not bother trying to recruit dual citizens because we're worried those players will be stolen away from us?

It reminds me of a story in one of the interviews for the documentary film "American Pimp", one of the pimps retells the story how one of his colleagues was looking to expand from the East coast out to the West and brought out his stable of Ho's with him to open up the business. Well, a bunch of West Coast pimps ended up stealing all his Ho's from him and the pimp had to go back out East with his tail between his legs....until a week later when he came back out West to everyone's surprise with a whole new stable of better Ho's and earned the respect of his West Coast brethren.

We need to be that Pimp.

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