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Canadians in 2014 NASL Season


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Here's a current thread to keep tabs on all the players in this year's NASL season. Please reply to the thread with additions, omissions or corrections.


FC EDMONTON (12)

Tyson Farago - GK - '91 -
John Smits - GK - '88 -

Marko Aleksic DF - '96-
Edson Edward - DF - '88 - 
Mallan Roberts - DF - '92 - 
Hanson Boakai - MF - '96 -
Gagan Dosanjh - MF - '88 -
Massimo Mirabelli - MF - '91 - 
Michael Nonni - MF - '89 -
Edem Mortotsi - MF - '93 - 
Sadi Jalali - FW - '95 -

Frank Jonke - FW - '85 -

 

MINNESOTA UNITED (1)

Mozzi Gyorio - '89  -

 

OTTAWA FURY FC (11)

Chad Bush - GK - '94 -

Marcel de Bellis GK  - '91 -

Drew Beckie - DF - '90 -

Kenny Caceros - DF - '88 -

Andrés Fresenga - DF - '92 -

Mason Trafford - DF - '86 -

Philippe Davies - MF - '90

Mauro Eustaquio - MF - '93 -

Zakaria Messoudi - MF - '93 -

Carl Haworth - FW - '89

Pierre-Rudolph Mayard - FW -'88

 

SAN ANTONIO SCORPIONS FC (2)

Adrian Cann- DF - '80 -
Shaun Saiko - MF - '89 -

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This is a great thread! Following Canadians on NASL teams is beginning to get interesting, because we're starting to have a lot of them playing at different parts of their careers.

 

In Ottawa, I'm particularly excited about Chad Bush, Drew Beckie, Andres Fresenga, and Carl Haworth. It'll also be interesting to follow Kenny Caceros, Philippe Davies, and Mason Trafford, namely due to their playing history before joining the Fury. Those of us in Ottawa who went to the PDL games got the chance to see Bush, Beckie, and Haworth up close. All three are solid players who were dominating in that league. If they keep heading down that path in NASL and beyond, I think they are three examples of success stories in the development of Canadian players.

 

Elsewhere in NASL, does anyone know what happened to Kevin Harmes? He was with San Antonio Scorpions last year, but seems to have disappeared since. I'm guessing that means he's without a club?

 

Its good to see Adrian Cann is still playing. One advantage the NASL gives Canadians is the fact that they can play longer than before. 

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Ottawa Fury FC Canadians (vs Minnesota United, April 19, 2014)

 

 - Pierre-Rudolph Mayard, Drew Beckie, Mason Trafford, and Philippe Davies were in the starting XI and went the full 90 minutes. Davies picked up a yellow in the 85' minute for either dissent or time-wasting (throwing a ball away for a Minn U free kick).

 

 - Andres Fresenga came in at the 78', Carl Haworth at the 80'. Haworth had at least one good goal-scoring opportunity which was blocked by a Minn U defender.

 

 - Marcel de Bellis was an unused sub. Its looking like Gorrick will be the club's starting goal-keeper. Mauro Eustaquio and Zakaria Messoudi were also unused subs.

 

San Antonio Scorpions (vs Atlanta Silverbacks)

 

 - Adrian Cann started and went the full 90 minutes at centre-back.

 

 - Shaun Saiko was subbed in at the 45' and SCORED in the 46'

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And Pridham debuted in the NASL (or any professional league for that matter). He was a 77th-minute sub in Minnesota United's 1-0 defeat by the Cosmos at Hofstra.

 

Still no sign of Gyorio though, not even on the bench. Anybody knows if he might be injured or something?

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And Pridham debuted in the NASL (or any professional league for that matter). He was a 77th-minute sub in Minnesota United's 1-0 defeat by the Cosmos at Hofstra.

 

Still no sign of Gyorio though, not even on the bench. Anybody knows if he might be injured or something?

 

I see Gyorio played in their USOC match

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May 31

 

-Trafford, Beckie, Davies, and Haworth all started and went '90 for Ottawa in their 1-0 win over FC Edmonton. Smits, Edward, and Nonni all went the distance for FCE. Boakai and Jonke both started and were subbed out in the 62' for Edmonton. For Ottawa, Mayard subbed on in 86' and Eustaqio in injury time after the goal. Good crowd of 3,207 at Carleton U.

 

-Cann played 90' in San Antonio's 2-1 win over Indy Eleven.

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Elsewhere in NASL, does anyone know what happened to Kevin Harmes? He was with San Antonio Scorpions last year, but seems to have disappeared since. I'm guessing that means he's without a club?

 

Harmse was team captain in San Antonio last season but finished the year in a less than ideal manner.  The Scopions had quite a dust up with Minnesota in a 3-2 loss at home in late August. Harmse gave Pablo Campos a love tap to the groin... or was it an elbow... maybe a fist.  In any case, he got suspended for the rest of the season (5 games).  This wasn't his first disciplinary problems, but was the epitome of San Antonio's season.  They started of with a lot of promise (high scoring strikers Denisson and Zahorski) but then crashed and burned (a 8-2 loss to Carolina comes to mind).  The coach (Harkinson) got fired and it was a free fall in the autumn season.  Harmse was not resigned in the off season when the Scorpions did a full scale overhaul of their lineup.

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Updated minutes through this week's games.

 

Mason Trafford 1710

Edson Edward 1536

John Smits 1440

Drew Beckie 1317

Carl Haworth 1249

Philippe Davies 1160

Adrian Cann 1080

Frank Jonke 890

Michael Nonni 802

Mallan Roberts 471

Pierre-Rudolph Mayard 371

Andrés Fresenga 253

Hanson Boakai 243
Mauro Eustaquio 180

Sadi Jalali 126

Massimo Mirabelli  58

Edem Mortotsi 56

Marko Aleksic 44

Kenny Caceros 9

 

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Ottawa Fury releasing Andres Fresenga this morning. He's gone from 'potentially breaking through with the national team' to 'not good enough for NASL' in a fairly short time span. I wish him all the best. At 22 years old, I think he still has a chance to break through somewhere.

 

Shame but ultimately you could see it coming as he clearly wasn't progressing.  He was in the Uruguayan league and couldn't even get a loan or a first team game which should have told us something.  He had a great performance against Brek Shea in 2012 which had me hopeful. 

 

As for Gyorio I think he simply screwed himself.  He had an offer from Sporting KC and turned it down then fell into limbo. 

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Gyorio must surely be in Fresenga's situation too at season's end. Another guy we got quite excited about at one point. I think NASL is the end of the road for most players who get released from the league.

 

I agree, and it's a shame.  We still have a lot of growth to do for the game in North America, we are getting there, though.

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Full season results for Canadians in NASL this year.  For the year there were 18 Canadians who played totalling 16,587 minutes with 7 goals.  Mason Trafford played every game and all but 82 minutes of the season for Ottawa.  The Ottawa and Vancouver teams continued the lower league tradition of playing lots of Canadians.

 

Mason Trafford 2348

Edson Edward 1923

John Smits 1800

Adrian Cann 1710

Drew Beckie 1587

Carl Haworth 1530

Philippe Davies 1480

Michael Nonni 919

Frank Jonke 890

Pierre-Rudolph Mayard 787

Mallan Roberts 471

Hanson Boakai 291
Mauro Eustaquio 301

Andrés Fresenga 253

Sadi Jalali 126

Massimo Mirabelli  62

Edem Mortotsi 56

Marko Aleksic 44

Kenny Caceros 9

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