IceCreamMan Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 http://www.canadasoccer.com/next-canada-m20-group-heads-to-mexico-for-camp-and-international-matches-p158793 Some names that are interesting. Particularly the guys from England who are far from guarantees to stick with the program. Nice looking roster in my opinion. CANADAGK- Philip Di Bennardo | CAN / Toronto FC IIGK- James Pantemis | CAN / Académie Impact MontréalCB- Thomas Meilleur Giguère | CAN / Académie Impact MontréalCB- Mateo Restrepo | CAN / Toronto FC AcademyCB- Fikayo Tomori | ENG / Chelsea FC U-21FB- Gabriel Boakye | CAN / Toronto FC IIFB- Kadin Chung | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2FB- Marcus Godinho | CAN / Toronto FC IIM- Tristan Borges | CAN / Toronto FC IIM- David Choinière | CAN / Académie Impact MontréalM- Joshua Doughty | ENG / Manchester United FC U-21M- Duwayne Ewart | CAN / Vaughan SCM- Harrison Paton | ENG / Fulham FC U-18 AcademyM- Shamit Shome | CAN / University of AlbertaM- Ballou Jean-Yves Tabla | CAN / Académie Impact MontréalM- Luca Uccello | CAN / Toronto FC IIF- Dario Zanatta | SCO / Heats of Midlothian FC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floortom Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Doughty has a decent history with the Canadian program so there is a good chance he commits to the program at some point. Tomori I doubt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazlo_80 Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Wow, the Chelsea kid comes in. Didn't he get the memo that people playing in England with other options are supposed to hold out until at least their 20s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fussball_eh Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Mateo Restrepo plays for FC Ingolstadt U19. I already made a correction tweet :-P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Hombre Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Very happy to see: CB- Fikayo Tomori | ENG / Chelsea FC U-21M- Tristan Borges | CAN / Toronto FC IIM- Joshua Doughty | ENG / Manchester United FC U-21F- Dario Zanatta | SCO / Heats of Midlothian FC There's some real talent there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazlo_80 Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Anyone know anything about the U of Alberta kid? He sorta sticks out from the rest of the group for obvious reasons. Also, I second El Hombre, this looks to be a solid squad for a group of kids 2 years out from the U-20s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob.notenboom Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 I had a two part interview with Rob Gale the Men's U20 head coach recently. He didn't get into specifics, but spoke of the lengths the CSA is currently going to in order to communicate with players that have multiple options. Some of that behind-the-scenes work is paying off with the recent additions on the senior men's side, but he said that there are several other instances right down to U15 and perhaps even below where they are monitoring players and staying in contact with the players, their clubs, and their families. It left me feeling quite positive about the job they are doing with these potential fence sitters and I hope it pays off. Edit: It was two part only because we talked too long before I started to record and he had to go. We finished up the interview over Skype. Very engaging guy. Seems deeply committed, very knowledgeable, and has tons of energy, all good things to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oranje Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Very happy to see: CB- Fikayo Tomori | ENG / Chelsea FC U-21M- Tristan Borges | CAN / Toronto FC IIM- Joshua Doughty | ENG / Manchester United FC U-21F- Dario Zanatta | SCO / Heats of Midlothian FC There's some real talent there. Need to throw Harrison in that group M- Harrison Paton | ENG / Fulham FC U-18 Academy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obinna Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Tristan Borges is in Holland, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazlo_80 Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 I had a two part interview with Rob Gale the Men's U20 head coach recently. He didn't get into specifics, but spoke of the lengths the CSA is currently going to in order to communicate with players that have multiple options. Some of that behind-the-scenes work is paying off with the recent additions on the senior men's side, but he said that there are several other instances right down to U15 and perhaps even below where they are monitoring players and staying in contact with the players, their clubs, and their families. It left me feeling quite positive about the job they are doing with these potential fence sitters and I hope it pays off. awesome to hear. It also seems like these camps happen waaaay more frequently than they did in the past too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floortom Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Why no Boakai? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceCreamMan Posted November 4, 2015 Author Share Posted November 4, 2015 Anyone know anything about the U of Alberta kid? He sorta sticks out from the rest of the group for obvious reasons. Also, I second El Hombre, this looks to be a solid squad for a group of kids 2 years out from the U-20s FC Edmonton tweeted out congrats as he is a graduate of their academy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fussball_eh Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Tristan Borges is in Holland, no? He will join Heerenveen in January 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullback Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Why no Boakai? Too old for the next generation of U20s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fussball_eh Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Why no Boakai? Because "Boakye" is the new Boakai :-P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob.notenboom Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 awesome to hear. It also seems like these camps happen waaaay more frequently than they did in the past too. They certainly do. I won't list them all as I probably will get the details incorrect, but they have been to several regions recently, looked at multiple age groups, and have taken various age groups to various competitions. Most recently they had the U16s in LA and had some decent success with them against the US splitting two games. It seems that their new approach involves monitoring the Canadian Pro Academies but then putting together test events where other players from the region (non-pro academies etc) come to regional camps and they play test games vs pro-academy players. All of this collected information gets fed into their growing player database, and they share much of this information through the CSA and across the provincial associations. I was just talking to Dave Nutt (from the SSA) on Monday night and he was discussing how he had just received the entire video and statistical breakdown from the U16 games in LA, and now gets all of that info that's created regardless of whether or not there is even a Sask player involved. We didn't explicitly discuss this, but it seems (my own interpretation) that many of these changes are being driven by a core group of people on the technical side of things within the CSA who are capable, knowledgeable, old enough to have learned a few things, but young enough to still have a lot of drive, and they are changing the culture. It is certainly encouraging. Although I must admit this is well beyond my pay grade, so I'm not sure how solid my interpretation is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpg75 Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Tomori has played in each of the last 4 U21 matches for Chelsea. We just need to get Kris Twardek on board and it'll be all hands on deck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Hombre Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Tomori has played in each of the last 4 U21 matches for Chelsea. We just need to get Kris Twardek on board and it'll be on hands on deck. I think it's way too late for him. Also, fuck him. Punk ass kid grows up around my neck of the woods and thinks he's Czech? No way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince193 Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Surprised no Christian Kaiswatum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soccerpro Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 I'm really interested to see the TFC 2 kids who were playing lots of games in the league at 17 and 18 years old. I wonder if they're ahead of the learning curve due to that experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympique_de_Marseille Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Punk ass kid grows up around my neck of the woods and thinks he's Czech? No way. "joined the Czech national team for the first time in 2014, he could not speak a word of Czech." https://mrkeysirensie.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/from-canada-to-millwall-fc-and-czech-national-team/ Didn't know anything about him but that made me laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shermanator Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Anyone know anything about the U of Alberta kid? He sorta sticks out from the rest of the group for obvious reasons. Eddies are definitely high on him. Other than that, not much is out there about him. Personally if they were so high on him they should have given him a first team deal, but maybe Shome really wanted to go to school. Also, NO ADONIJAH REID NO PARTY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obinna Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 I think it's way too late for him. Also, fuck him. Punk ass kid grows up around my neck of the woods and thinks he's Czech? No way. Yeah, fuck him for exercising his right to play for a nation he is eligible for! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soccerpro Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Eddies are definitely high on him. Other than that, not much is out there about him. Personally if they were so high on him they should have given him a first team deal, but maybe Shome really wanted to go to school. Also, NO ADONIJAH REID NO PARTY! Can't blame him for going to University rather than making peanuts for the Eddies and maybe not even making the bench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Hombre Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Yeah, fuck him for exercising his right to play for a nation he is eligible for! It's about time you started coming around to this way of thinking. Good job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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