rydermike Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 (edited) From seeing a discussion on Reddit, I thought it'd be interesting to make a list of all the players who earned international caps while in the CPL. Seeing as how I've seen us many times discussing how it's provided players with opportunities they wouldn't have gotten)(such as playing internationally for a second smaller nation), I thought I'd compile a list. For simplicity, I kept it to senior caps only (no youth caps), and not any training camps, call-ups with no actual cap, and only players who got them while in the CPL (so Waterman/MacNaughton didn't make the list). Is this list accurate? I went through wikipedia seeing the international plays who had caps listed. Let me know if I am missing anyone/did I include anyone I shouldn't have. I also added a column if they were also Canadian eligible CPL players who earned SENIOR caps while they were playing in the CPL Updated: November 21, 2023 (bold = Current CPL player) Player Country Year of 1st cap while in CPL Canadian national? Emilio Estevez Chinese Taipei 2019 Canadian Emery Welshman Guyana 2019 Canadian Quillan Roberts Guyana 2019 (earned a cape with Canada before) Canadian Justin Springer St. Kitts and Nevis 2019 (earned caps before) Canadian Ryan Telfer Trinidad and Tobago 2019 Canadian Ali Musse Somalia 2019 Canadian Akeem Garcia Trinidad and Tobago 2019 Abd-El-Aziz Yousef Somalia 2019 Canadian Amer Didic CANADA 2020 CANADA Tristan Borges CANADA 2020 CANADA Omar Browne Panama 2021 (earned caps before) Federico Pena Trinidad and Tobago 2021 Canadian Jems Geffard Haiti 2021 (earned caps before) Canadian Garven Metusala Haiti 2022 Canadian Andrew Jean-Baptiste Haiti 2022 (earned caps before) Alex Marshall Jamaica 2022 (earned caps before) Molham Babouli Syria 2022 Canadian Javier George Guyana 2022 (earned caps before) William Akio South Sudan 2022 Canada Gianni Dos Santos Cape Verde 2022 Billy Forbes Turks and Caicos 2022 (earned caps before) Gabriel Bitar Lebanon 2022 Canadian Pacifique Niyongabire Burundi 2023 (earned caps before) Euguene Pele Martinez Belize 2023 (earned caps before) Andre Rampersad Trinidad And Tobago 2023 Jonathan Grant Guyana 2023 Canadian Luke Singh Trinidad And Tobago 2023 Canadian Malcolm Shaw Trinidad And Tobago 2023 Canadian Brem Soumaoro Liberia 2023 (earned caps before) Miki Cantave Haiti 2023 (earned caps before) Canadian Marcus Simmons Guyana 2023 Canadian Osaze De Rosario Guyana 2023 Canadian Reon Moore Trinidad & Tobago 2024 (earned caps before) Cedric Toussaint Haiti 2024 Canadian Edited March 25 by rydermike updated March 25, 2024 K Edgar, Kent, NVsoccer and 7 others 7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aird25 Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 @rydermikegreat thread. Cheers. I imagine Balidisimo will be added soon for Philippines. I think he’s been called 3 times without playing (Covid, registration, and injury). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 23 minutes ago, Aird25 said: @rydermikegreat thread. Cheers. I imagine Balidisimo will be added soon for Philippines. I think he’s been called 3 times without playing (Covid, registration, and injury). Could be a bit of a want there for them, was he injured the latest call? He was picked up during it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 (edited) Technically were there not a few Canadians at the 2020 Camp Poutine? Edit: Didic and Borges did play at the 2020 Camp Poutine. Edited January 3, 2023 by narduch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aird25 Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 21 hours ago, jordan said: Could be a bit of a want there for them, was he injured the latest call? He was picked up during it. Maybe there hasn't been as much interest since leaving Pacific. He missed out in late 2021 due to injury, but I don't know if he's been called since https://northerntribune.ca/pacific-fc-matthew-baldisimo-injury-2021/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rydermike Posted January 3, 2023 Author Share Posted January 3, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, narduch said: Technically were there not a few Canadians at the 2020 Camp Poutine? Edit: Didic and Borges did play at the 2020 Camp Poutine. I just kept it simple and just used actual caps, since those were a lot easier to track than call-ups, especially for non-Canada countries. For me, this was the easiest way to have a consistent method for inclusion. Edited January 3, 2023 by rydermike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 (edited) 23 minutes ago, rydermike said: I just kept it simple and just used actual caps, since those were a lot easier to track than call-ups, especially for non-Canada countries. For me, this was the easiest way to have a consistent method for inclusion. Ok. But Didic and Borges were indeed capped in January of 2020 while being CPL players. Borges has 1 cap after subbing on v Barbados on January 10, 2020 in a 4-1 win. Didic has 2 caps from playing in that Camp Poutine. He debuted in the 1st Barbados game and played v Iceland too Edited January 4, 2023 by narduch rydermike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Just for completeness. Borges did not transfer to OHL until after getting his first Canada cap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rydermike Posted January 4, 2023 Author Share Posted January 4, 2023 3 minutes ago, narduch said: Ok. But Didic and Borges were indeed capped in January of 2020 while being CPL players. Borges has 1 cap after playing v Barbados. Didic has 2 caps from playing in that Camp Poutine. He debuted in the 1st Barbados game and played v Iceland too Ah, thanks. Somehow I was thinking Camp Poutine was just a camp, didn't realize they had some friendlies. I'll add them later when I get to a computer (just on my phone now) narduch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yothat2 Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 İs it full international caps or u-20/23 level counts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rydermike Posted January 4, 2023 Author Share Posted January 4, 2023 (edited) 15 hours ago, yothat2 said: İs it full international caps or u-20/23 level counts? Full caps only. I had that written in the first post, since it'd get over complicated with youth caps (and those are harder to track for international countries) Edited January 4, 2023 by rydermike johnyb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cblake Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 Quillan Roberts did have one cap prior for Canada in 2015 before filing his one time switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rydermike Posted March 20, 2023 Author Share Posted March 20, 2023 New potential caps: Jonathan Grant - Guyana Bren Soumaoro - Liberia Andre Rampersad - Trinidad And Tobago Euguene Pele Martinez - Belize Pacifique Niyongabire - Burundi Question for you all: Should they play, should I include Soumaoro/Martinez/Niyongabire in the list since they haven't played their first CPL game yet? Should it be a only while you're playing list or a while you're under contract list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 I would imagine that as long as you're on the squad it counts. That's my take anyway. So a player out on loan doesn't count, but someone signed and in pre-season does. Those mentioned above count as far as I'm concerned. This is a fun list, I enjoy following! MM3/MM2/MM, Pottsy3 and Kent 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Edgar Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 (edited) On 3/20/2023 at 5:40 PM, rydermike said: Pacifique Niyongabire - Burundi Pacifique Niyongabire plays full game and score in 1-3 loss to Indonesia in a friendly. I believe that is his 2nd cap and his first goal for country. Edited March 25, 2023 by K Edgar narduch and NVsoccer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zem Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 Jonny Grant made his debut for Guyana in a 2-0 win over Bermuda today, he was the instigator for both goals: Welshman flicked his cross on to the goalscorer for the first, and then he assisted on the second https://youtu.be/_N7AkgYwdV4?t=108 Rampersad also made his debut for Trinidad and Tobago yesterday against the Bahamas Martinez started for Belize against arch-rivals Guatemala, they lost 2-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadaFan123 Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 Martinez almost scored a looping header for Belize against Guatemala. Great to see all this international content for the league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Edgar Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 On 3/25/2023 at 10:29 AM, K Edgar said: Pacifique Niyongabire plays full game and score in 1-3 loss to Indonesia in a friendly. I believe that is his 2nd cap and his first goal for country. 2nd cap in three day. Pacifique Niyongabire played 2nd half of 2-2 friendly vs Indonsia Aird25 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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narduch Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 2 CPLers make the Guyana Gold Cup squad. They are in the play in games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonovision Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 Pacifique Niyongabire selected for Burundi. K Edgar and narduch 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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narduch Posted June 18, 2023 Share Posted June 18, 2023 (edited) York United's Jonathan Grant played the full match for Guyana in their Gold Cup preliminary match v Grenada yesterday. They advanced on PKs. Vancouver FC's Marcus Simmons was an unused sub. Ex. Forge Emery Welshman started for Guyana. They face Guadeloupe on Tuesday for a shot to take on Canada at BMO Field in the Gold Cup proper Edited June 18, 2023 by narduch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonovision Posted June 18, 2023 Share Posted June 18, 2023 Valour's Pacifique Niyongabire was subbed out in the 90th minute on Friday in a 4-0 loss at Cote d'Ivoire. Home to Namibia on Tuesday. narduch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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