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Bekker could grab a free kick or two against some poorly organized walls and make some highlight reels early on

If Quebecois strikers are coming out of retiremne t If Quebecois strikers are coming out of retirement then Ali Gerba has to be available!

tbf the Island team hardly needs to do preseason training in a warm-weather climate, but if the other 6 teams are going they might as well squeeze in!

Good call on Blake Smith as the mystery Smith, he got cut from Cincinnatti last month and just recently "liked" a tweet from Mark Village about Pacific FC. That was me on reddit, I think I was confusing Jose Pina with "Pena" and assumed it was Adrian. AFAIK Adrian Pena isn't involved.

The seven deadly shinpads

is Steph Labbé still in Calgary?

Thank you, duly noted

AWG Indoor Sports Field, Iqaluit, NU

Brilliant draw, especially because I assumed Cuba would've been secretly kept from drawing either Canada or the US, a bit like how UEFA keep certain nations from playing each other. The Cuban team usually don't leave with the entire squad when they play up here IIRC

John's Herd, Man. That's great, not sure about the rest of the opening post from Roberto there. If anything, I think the "false dawn" repeated itself leading up to that WCQ at BMO Field against Jamaica (2008?) when Onstad punched it into his own net. Things went downhill from there.

I always thought it would be cool to turn out for a random Pacific side, at least while indulging the fantasy that I could play footy at all. Even in my fantasy I assume I wouldn't be good enough for CanMNT. Why hate on players who are doing that for lesser teams than us? We have the youngsters coming through that we aren't going to need to rely on randoms as much as we used to...

This reeks of Davies finally getting a place in the Bayern team and everyone involved agreeing that it would be better to keep that momentum going. Even though this is a FIFA date it makes sense. I'd happily trade it for Davies at the Olympic qualifiers in October but I somehow doubt it...

Cavallini just scored for Puebla at home to Pumas in round 11 of the MX Clausura, close-range header. 1-0 now with 35 minutes to play.

Give him a break... Guys like Emery Welshman playing for a second nationality looks good for L1O

Gold Cup is supposed to have a game or two in central America as well right? So they can seed US and whoever else as "hosts" but keep the hex/NL rankings for the remaining seeding. One can hope...