A_Gagne Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 Some of the goalkeeping against Ukraine is so shambolic. That is nowhere near good enough for any Canada NT side. Hey, easy on the kid... faced a lot of shots and did well on most of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xabuep2 Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 FT Uruguay 1 (26' Valverde) Canada 1 ( 27' Giguere) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob.notenboom Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 Two good results in this tournament. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraightUpMitch Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 Two good results in this tournament. When was the last time we scored in every match of a tournament? Youth or otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob.notenboom Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 When was the last time we scored in every match of a tournament? Youth or otherwise. Maybe never. Easy to like the fact that we're scoring. We scored 3 in 3 games in the 2013 U17WC but were shutout against Argentina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aloyol Posted October 12, 2014 Author Share Posted October 12, 2014 When was the last time we scored in every match of a tournament? Youth or otherwise. 2013 U17 and U20 Concacaf championships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertuzzi44 Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 Hey, easy on the kid... faced a lot of shots and did well on most of them. He got lucky on a lot of them too. he's still young and can improve, but this is U18 not U16... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soccerpro Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 The highlights from the France game were jarring. It should have been 8-1 for France. I could care less about the score when we get played off the park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaltan Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 We in this country have to come to realizes that we are sending these players over to these games not prepared, 5 to 6 days together before they have to play against teams that are together far more then ours. We even have three players that are not even in full time programs. The fact that they do compete is amazing, until we develop a full time program for our national players that allows them to train and play mean full games often we will alway lag behind. I think that the last time this group was together was in April for 8 t0 10 days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red card Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Lack of prep for a tourney is just a small slice of the issue. You don't achieve the skill level mentally & physically of the French team overnight. They're renowned for their elite academies. The federation has about 12 of them and one of them is probably the best in the world. They start developing them at 13 years and train 5 days a week and they can also play with the home team clubs on the weekend. In contrast, we are structurally deficient by being late to the game training our players and don't have enough qualified people to train them up to an elite level. And we can't make it up culturally since our football culture is at third worldish levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_Gagne Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 The highlights from the France game were jarring. It should have been 8-1 for France. I could care less about the score when we get played off the park. +1... this was France though... to keep things in perspective. But the scoreline did not reflect the game or skill levels on display. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaltan Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 There are a lot of qualified people with the passion in our country, they just need to be given a chance to work in a structured program, with players that would like to get to the next level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertuzzi44 Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 The highlights from the France game were jarring. It should have been 8-1 for France. I could care less about the score when we get played off the park. The Ukraine highlights were more even. Despite the score, probably much more indicative of our level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aloyol Posted October 13, 2014 Author Share Posted October 13, 2014 The highlights from the France game were jarring. It should have been 8-1 for France. I could care less about the score when we get played off the park. 2 years ago I would ve lived with a 1-1 in a game that should ve been 8-1 for Honduras... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Observer Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 I saw the highlights. They definitely had the better chances but I counted only 3 or 4 decent ones. But probably 2 or 3 - 1 would have been a fair result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masster Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 There are a lot of qualified people with the passion in our country, they just need to be given a chance to work in a structured program, with players that would like to get to the next level. Great. Now who is going to pay for that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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An Observer Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Its interesting watching these highlights (which I admit is limited to get a full view). I thought we didn't look bad going forward and in each match, we seem to get better which makes sense as players get familiar with each other and grow in confidence. There were a few times where players really tried to run at the defense which was good. But I thought our defending was very poor. The side seemed well organised but the individual players were just sloppy. And I thought our keeper(s) were very weak. I would say the bulk of the chances were caused by simple defensive sloppiness or keeper errors. Number 11 for us seems to be a player. Creative and tricky on the ball. The scorer of the goal against France. Looked as good as anyone else I saw on the highlights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soccerpro Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Some of the defensive positioning and miscues were really shocking. Goalkeeping seemed pretty weak too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northvansteve Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Number 11 was David Choiniere from Montreal Impact? Looked very good in the highlights. Question: why is it that Canada struggles with developing effective holding mids? Seemed like a lot of chances against came from the utter inability to stop those runs thru the midfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Hombre Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 http://canadasoccer.com/canada-m18-more-than-hold-their-own-against-international-opposition-p157080 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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