jordan Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 Born 05/07/1999 currently playing with Lille OSC. Had spent time in the Anderlecht youth system prior to joining. Was part of the U17 Canada roster in August 2014 http://www.canadasoccer.com/?t=project.tpl&sid=1091 Played his first professional game on 05/20 for Lille in CFA. https://www.losc.fr/actualites-foot-lille/face-à-croix-la-cfa-ne-flanche-pas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_M Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 Cfa is not professional but could be considered his first senior appearance if he didn't play senior before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan Posted July 25, 2017 Author Share Posted July 25, 2017 Part of the CFA team this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackdude Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 (edited) He's been called up for the Belgium U19 team. Edited August 22, 2017 by Blackdude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 22 minutes ago, Blackdude said: He's been called up for the Belgium U19 team. <iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ftoutsurlille%2Fposts%2F1169479576521933&width=500" width="500" height="512" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true"></iframe> WTF!?!? johnyb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackdude Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 4 minutes ago, BCM1555362349 said: WTF!?!? Sorry. It should be good now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 6 minutes ago, Blackdude said: Sorry. It should be good now. No mate, it was surprise that he's on the Belgian radar... Not good, still surprised in a negative way. johnyb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackdude Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 51 minutes ago, BCM1555362349 said: No mate, it was surprise that he's on the Belgian radar... Not good, still surprised in a negative way. I was talking about the link. I didn't know how to link fb posts until now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpg75 Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Fuck. johnyb, Oranje and Addona 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northvansteve Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Good for him but what an incredibly deep and talented national team he would have to break into. I see this as just giving him more experience and exposure before he eventually joins our senior team. Bikerack, yothat and Keegan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 7 minutes ago, Northvansteve said: Good for him but what an incredibly deep and talented national team he would have to break into. I see this as just giving him more experience and exposure before he eventually joins our senior team. Exactly.. Belgium is far too deep for us to be worrying about a player playing 4th division France. Actually really surprised he got a call, this must be a sort of identity camp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackdude Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 5 minutes ago, Keegan said: Exactly.. Belgium is far too deep for us to be worrying about a player playing 4th division France. Actually really surprised he got a call, this must be a sort of identity camp. It's a friendly tournament. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpg75 Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 49 minutes ago, Keegan said: Exactly.. Belgium is far too deep for us to be worrying about a player playing 4th division France. Actually really surprised he got a call, this must be a sort of identity camp. He's 18 years old and is being played up with the reserves instead of his last year of U19 eligibility, he's a good prospect on a mid-upper table Ligue 1 club. Besides, this Belgian demographic cycle will start to sputter out mid-decade when Bassong hits his prime. Don't assume anything. Addona 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpecialK Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 http://justesoccer.com/europe/zohran-bassong-longueuil-europe/ Here is cool article about him and his journey to Europe. It's in French. It makes me happy that a Canadian kid is turning heads in Europe, but it pisses me off at the same time because it shows a lot about the failures of Canadian soccer/CSA and it seems we have lost once again another young talented player to a European power house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzAndSting Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 The article states clearly that his mother and him moved to Belgium when he was 14 so that she could regain her citizenship and therefore get him more trials. Not sure what the CSA should have done about that. Grizzly 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpecialK Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 (edited) CSA doesn't do enough to develop young talent. Now this young talented player is now in Europe and now playing for Belgium. It seems like there is no support for young talent players to take their game to the Top level. Edited October 5, 2017 by SpecialK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzAndSting Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 (edited) 2 minutes ago, SpecialK said: CSA doesn't do enough to develop young talent. Now this young talented player is now in Europe and now playing for Belgium. It seems like there is no support for young talent players to take their game to the Top level. The article specifically quotes his father saying they turned down the Impact and that they pursued his Belgian eligibility to have a better opportunity at larger Euro clubs. Should the CSA develop a year round youth program similar to USA hockey? That's an idea. Edited October 5, 2017 by BuzzAndSting SpecialK, toontownman and Keegan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yothat Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 he ll be coming back to Canada. Belgium is too deep. No worries here. Good on his family for doing whatever it takes BCM, Blackjack15, SpecialK and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpecialK Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 1 hour ago, BuzzAndSting said: The article specifically quotes his father saying they turned down the Impact and that they pursued his Belgian eligibility to have a better opportunity at larger Euro clubs. Should the CSA develop a year round youth program similar to USA hockey? That's an idea. Buzz That could work. Great idea ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northvansteve Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 1 hour ago, yothat said: he ll be coming back to Canada. Belgium is too deep. Didn't we just tell ourselves that on Cristante and Tomori? SpecialK, jpg75, deschamp86 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheatsheafSK Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 12 hours ago, BuzzAndSting said: The article states clearly that his mother and him moved to Belgium when he was 14 so that she could regain her citizenship and therefore get him more trials. Not sure what the CSA should have done about that. I think the answer is rather obvious. The CSA HQ is downtown Ottawa. As soon as they got word that Bassong was leaving they should have just sent someone over to speak with the Minister responsible for passports and tell him that Bassong is leaving Canada for nefarious reasons (i.e. desire to play soccer under a different flag). Surely there are measures in place to revoke someone's passport for that reason! If not, then the CSA should be walking straight down Metcalfe to Parliament and demand that the Canadian Passport Order be amendment to prevent budding soccer players from travelling on Canadian passports. This is a clear case where the CSA has not done enough to prevent the development of young players and hamper their career choices. Grizzly 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopePouri Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 8 minutes ago, WheatsheafSK said: I think the answer is rather obvious. The CSA HQ is downtown Ottawa. As soon as they got word that Bassong was leaving they should have just sent someone over to speak with the Minister responsible for passports and tell him that Bassong is leaving Canada for nefarious reasons (i.e. desire to play soccer under a different flag). Surely there are measures in place to revoke someone's passport for that reason! If not, then the CSA should be walking straight down Metcalfe to Parliament and demand that the Canadian Passport Order be amendment to prevent budding soccer players from travelling on Canadian passports. Are you serious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheatsheafSK Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 (edited) 2 hours ago, PopePouri said: Are you serious? Serious? I am all for crushing the aspirations of youth. Besides, what is the point of having a CSA office blocks from Parliament if they are not going to throw their weight around? Soccer is the most played sport in Canada. Time to get Parliament to acknowledge that fact. The Government should transfer the entire defence budget to Canadian soccer. Soldiers can be transitioned into soccer players for the CPL. It is a brilliant idea that solves all of soccer's problems. But - if you really have to ask, you already know the answer. Edited October 5, 2017 by WheatsheafSK spelling Brethers8, Grizzly and El Hombre 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan Posted October 5, 2017 Author Share Posted October 5, 2017 54 minutes ago, WheatsheafSK said: I think the answer is rather obvious. The CSA HQ is downtown Ottawa. As soon as they got word that Bassong was leaving they should have just sent someone over to speak with the Minister responsible for passports and tell him that Bassong is leaving Canada for nefarious reasons (i.e. desire to play soccer under a different flag). Surely there are measures in place to revoke someone's passport for that reason! If not, then the CSA should be walking straight down Metcalfe to Parliament and demand that the Canadian Passport Order be amendment to prevent budding soccer players from travelling on Canadian passports. This is a clear case where the CSA has not done enough to prevent the development of young players and hamper their career choices. He played for Canada after he left, while at Anderlecht....... Ivan and yothat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheatsheafSK Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 1 hour ago, jordan said: He played for Canada after he left, while at Anderlecht....... Sarcasm Lost....... RandomGuy and Olympique_de_Marseille 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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