SpursFlu Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 Wow great move. As a Whitecaps supporter I'm looking for more of this. Excited to watch him play for Ottawa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 9 minutes ago, narduch said: Surprise! Awesome! Exactly the type of moves that should be happening with our best young prospects. Colliedor, Trois Reds, Shortdutchcanuck and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colliedor Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 Really happy to see this. Hoping he does well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 Quality move. They need an experienced CB in to compliment them. Still need a quality striker too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yothat2 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 How many roster spots still available ?? Think they bring in a few trialists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zem Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 19 minutes ago, yothat2 said: How many roster spots still available ?? They have 7 roster spots still open, including 1 foreign player spot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket Robin Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Wow so one year later and no Ottawa Fury. Remember all those fans who swore there'd never be soccer in the city if there was no continued sanctioning for the USL? USL Championship starts up this weekend with a home and away schedule to play well on ESPN. The compromise reached is that conferences have been divided up into smaller groups. Fury would have been in the conference containing teams from Pennsylvania and New York state (at least avoiding the Florida and other teams from the Covid/southern states). Note there are some crossover games as NYRB II visits Atlanta U 2 in September. I expect the Fury would have not have been allowed to play because of cross border restrictions. This is what's happening at USL League One level where Toronto FC II and the league have agreed that the team will sit out the season because of quarantine rules. (Can't isolate two weeks with any type of compressed schedule). At least you'll be able to watch Atletico on OneSoccer until there are possible home games after their tourney in Victoria or Charlottetown. narduch, Bbeto, Trois Reds and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sloth8 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Six player signings announced today including Mohamed Kourouma and Ben McKendry: https://canpl.ca/article/atletico-ottawa-completes-2020-roster-with-6-signings-including-kourouma-mckendry The article also confirms that Bernardino, Shaw, and Dada-Luke did not travel to P.E.I. and will not compete at The Island Games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senorpopps Posted August 10, 2020 Author Share Posted August 10, 2020 6 signings! IMO Mckendry is the biggest addition but the others will make things interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zem Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 A bunch of great signings. McKendry should make a great Tevin Shaw replacement and Kapor will be critical at CB. I'm assuming Kourouma will be played more at CF, his other natural position where he's a had most of his success in recent years, and I think he'll do much better there than at LW. Kowal demolished League1 Ontario last year and I reckon that, like Novak, he'll be a good striker in the CPL too. Phillips should be decent competition for Neufville and he's very deserving of a chance with the pros, as he's consistently been one of the best fullbacks in League1 Ontario for years. Finally, I didn't expect a Sobze Zemo signing, but Horace is a fantastic shot-stopper and I'm super happy to see him getting a chance. He obviously won't play over Zabal, and frankly he's not better than Gomes either, but if the circumstances demand he plays, I'm sure he'll do great. Shway, Shortdutchcanuck and toontownman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadaFan123 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 It's hard to write this team off. In general, all the teams in this league can put out a competitive XI so it will come down to depth. McKendry is a good signing and I would think that Kapor should be good as well looking at his pedigree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 It is the chemistry that will be their undoing. All of the other teams, except maybe valour. Have a core of players and staff that know each other, know the league and opposition. Solid start up squad though. Such a great addition to the league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 1 hour ago, toontownman said: It is the chemistry that will be their undoing. All of the other teams, except maybe valour. Have a core of players and staff that know each other, know the league and opposition. Solid start up squad though. Such a great addition to the league. Agreed. But we'll see how good a coach Mista is, with such short time to set things up. And how much the Atlético name and legacy pushes the team to be competitive, the demand on that side is different from every other club in CPL, if the players want to take up the implicit challenge. toontownman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradMack Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Gotta say, as a Wanderers fan, this is the least scary team in the league up front. Fisk is good but once again has very little around him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 9 hours ago, BradMack said: Gotta say, as a Wanderers fan, this is the least scary team in the league up front. Fisk is good but once again has very little around him. Sort of have to repeat what I was saying. We don't know much about a lot of these signings. And we are underestimating they are being coached by a former top-flight striker. I think At Ottawa will make the top 4 actually. Predicting Forge, Cavalry, At O, and York9, although I would prefer Pacific to go all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viruk42 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 15 hours ago, BradMack said: Gotta say, as a Wanderers fan, this is the least scary team in the league up front. Fisk is good but once again has very little around him. It's difficult to predict, as Unnamed Trialist points out. Kowal was a goal per game guy in L1o last year, and we could maybe use Anthony Novak as a comparable (having also been about a goal per game in L1o and then scoring 6 in 16 last year), but that's the end of good comparables. I'm cautiously optimistic about Malcolm Shaw and looking forward to seeing what Francisco Acuña can do - the latter obviously has the talent, but whether the body holds up at his age... (I say, realizing that he's two years younger than I am) Last season we all saw guys, who we thought would thrive, fall flat while others came out of nowhere. The same could easily be true for Ottawa, both positively and negatively. I think Ottawa will win a game, but overall will struggle, simply because of circumstances - team thrown together last minute, then international transfers essentially stopped by the pandemic, and having to scramble to find any available players. But I'm optimistic, especially now that the centre-back pairing looks good Shway, BradMack and rkomar 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shway Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Jarred Phillips is really good. I think he’s on par with Doner tbh. We’ll see! yothat2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Initial B Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 I just wanted to bump this because I'm so happy that we beat Cavalry for our first win. I was getting frustrated by the red cards and late collapses, but I think AO has a good chance to take 4th place. ray, Bison44 and yothat2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ansem Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Loan announcement johnyb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinceA Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 https://canpl.ca/article/atletico-ottawa-re-signs-coach-mista-for-2021-cpl-season Not really the player news people were hoping for but Glad Mista is back. Kind of assumed he would be anyway! No to reconfirm Acuna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Observer Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 With all the activity lately from other sides, it’s kinda surprising that we haven’t heard much from Ottawa especially as arguably they have the thinnest squad especially for Canadians. I would have thought they would have been one of the most active in the off season. Maybe an arrangement with Montreal and/or Toronto for players to be loaned to them? Still strikes me as odd as I would I have thought Athletico would want to develop their own Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 With the Mista contract renewal it was said they are now concentrating on players and will make a number of announcements in about two to three weeks, so should have a few announcements before Christmas. I expect lots is done like last year, just not announced. Also likely they might be waiting for the January window to close for a few pieces organized by Atletico. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlantic Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 (edited) Viti Martinez who’s on loan with Alavés B in the Segunda División B picked up his first goal yesterday. Video of goal (2:08) [Warning: Terrible background music] Edited December 21, 2020 by Atlantic johnyb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-g-williams Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 So, I noticed that the Atletico website is advertising 2021 deposits and season memberships. If I already paid a 2020 deposit, do I need to put down a new one? Or does it make any difference where seasons memberships are apparently available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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