Canada Pre-World Cup "friendlies" thread: news, gossip and speculation.

[canuckgbp]

US squad is out. 26 players called. 
 

Why does Herdman love waiting until the bitter end? 

[Atlantic]

Uruguay have called up 41 players for their friendlies against us and Iran but they will cut the numbers down to a final squad 

 

[Obinna]

Caceres, who got torched by Schaffleburg recently, made the prelim roster. Schaffleburg call up incoming?  

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

1 hour ago, Obinna said:

Schaffleburg call up incoming?  

He is almost certainly on Herman's prelim roster that the CSA never releases unless forced to ( for example, prior to a Gold Cup )

[Gian-Luca]

2 hours ago, Obinna said:

Caceres, who got torched by Schaffleburg recently, made the prelim roster. Schaffleburg call up incoming?  

Pedantry alert: it is spelt "Shaffelburg" - you are consistently spelling his name with an extra "c" and the "l" and "e" inverted.

Sorry, sometimes I can't help myself.

[Obinna]

Just now, Gian-Luca said:

Pedantry alert: it is spelt "Shaffelburg" - you are consistently spelling his name with an extra "c" and the "l" and "e" inverted.

Sorry, sometimes I can't help myself.

haha all good. Sometimes I catch that before I hit reply, believe it or not, but most times I don't (clearly). Thanks! 

[Ally McCoist]

How the hell did Honduras and Jamaica get friendlies with Argentina and we didn't?  

It clearly wasn't a matter of money.

[nfitz]

On 9/8/2022 at 11:41 PM, gigi riva said:

I do find it kind of odd that there is no Ticket info yet .

I'd think that they'd expect the crowd to be pretty small - and would just do walk-up and general seating. I don't see any advantage to advance sales and something like TicketMa$ter

[InglewoodJack]

16 minutes ago, Ally McCoist said:

How the hell did Honduras and Jamaica get friendlies with Argentina and we didn't?  

It clearly wasn't a matter of money.

They didn’t want to risk the embarrassment of Messi losing 2-0 to Canada 

[Atlantic]

16 minutes ago, Ally McCoist said:

How the hell did Honduras and Jamaica get friendlies with Argentina and we didn't?  

It clearly wasn't a matter of money.

Messi knew he couldn't stat pad his international goals versus us 😜

[Ruud]

1 hour ago, Ally McCoist said:

How the hell did Honduras and Jamaica get friendlies with Argentina and we didn't?  

It clearly wasn't a matter of money.

Miami and New York?  Those games will sell out and the opposition will take scraps! Currently see most tickets In the  $200 range 

Edited September 15, 2022 by Ruud
Error

[PegCityCam]

Just. Fucking. Tell. Us.

 

Edited September 15, 2022 by PegCityCam
Hyperbole

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

On 9/14/2022 at 6:53 PM, Ally McCoist said:

How the hell did Honduras and Jamaica get friendlies with Argentina and we didn't?  

It clearly wasn't a matter of money.

Because Jamaica were willing to wait until the last minute. Canada wanted to secure a training camp location and not deal with a last minute scramble and two matches in two very different locations.

Remember Brazil was supposed to play Argentina but finally FIFA agreed to cancel that match.

https://www.espn.com/soccer/fifa-world-cup/story/4723731/brazil-argentina-world-cup-qualifier-wont-be-replayed

I am not sure what fine/penalty Brazil &/or Argentina had to deal with to get FIFA to agree but both their FAs are pretty loaded as far as I know. I have a feeling that it was more than the 150 000 Swiss Francs each mentioned.

Edited September 16, 2022 by Olympique_de_Marseille

[Stoppage Time]

1 hour ago, PegCityCam said:

Just. Fucking. Tell. Us.

 

Possible "In's" for the roster:  Corbeanu, Koleosho, Shaffelburg?

 

[VinceA]

Scianitti dropping Kone, Waterman and Corbeanu's names...interesting...

[Buchta]

Who will be in Vienna for the Qatar match for sure?  My son and I should be going to the match.  We need to book train tickets from the Czech Republic, but I will wait until the ticket situation has been confirmed.  Nothing has been confirmed, right?

Edited September 15, 2022 by Buchta

[footballfreak]

12 hours ago, VinceA said:

Scianitti dropping Kone, Waterman and Corbeanu's names...interesting...

Is it? Would have thought those 3 were locks for this roster. They’re probably the three non-brotherhood guys closest to making the 26.

[spitfire]

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Edited September 15, 2022 by spitfire
Too soon

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

@Sadiq Husain , did you get any info from the stadium about the Bratislava match?

Edited September 15, 2022 by Olympique_de_Marseille

[Sadiq Husain]

5 minutes ago, Olympique_de_Marseille said:

Good sign!

 

@Sadiq Husain , did you get any info from the stadium about the Bratislava match?

Nothing. I send 2 emails. No response. We purchased our train tickets and are assuming tickets are for sale at the stadium in Brat. Similar to the Qatar game in Vienna at Generali Arena

[Sadiq Husain]

2 hours ago, Buchta said:

Who will be in Vienna for the Qatar match for sure?  My son and I should be going to the match.  We need to book train tickets from the Czech Republic, but I will wait until the ticket situation has been confirmed.  Nothing has been confirmed, right?

Generali Arena. Confirms kick-off on Sept 23rd at 7pm. Ticket sales are not online and can be purchased directly at the arena.

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

20 minutes ago, Sadiq Husain said:

Nothing. I send 2 emails. No response. We purchased our train tickets and are assuming tickets are for sale at the stadium in Brat.

For the Uruguay match, if you don't hear anything by the end of the day tomorrow, I'd send a PM to @spitfire .

[Norrin Radd]

Official from the CSA, the roster release is tomorrow.

[JAVIERF]

Jebbison is in no doubt about it.  Kaleosho too inexperieced, 

[JAVIERF]

Jebbison is quicker than Ukbo