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PLSQ announced today that Ottawa South United has been forced to withdraw from the men's 2021 season (women's season already finished) due to provincial government restrictions. Also announced two new teams (one male and one female) for 2022 season. CS St Laurent for men and AS Chaudière-Ouest for women

No idea if it's international spots, but if it isn't, he had posted on social media on Monday that he had Covid and just recovered. That explains some of the absence (at least from TFC2)

I call it the dumbest thing, because by the time the UEFA U21 begins, all the players are already 22-23. It's different than the Uefa U19 (where the players are U19) to qualify for the FIFA U20 the following year (when the U19s are now U20s because a year has passed - that makes complete sense). The UEFA U21 is different. For example, the 2021 UEFA U21 required the players to be U21 in 2019 when qualifying began (so by the time of the actual U21 tournament the players were actually U23). It's not a "U21" qualification for a "U23" in a couple years (for the normal aging process) like the UefaU19/FifaU20. The UEFA U21 is never U21 except for super early qualifying games two years prior to the tournament. It's also not a U21 group qualifying for the Olympics when they will be U23s. It's literally U23s qualifying for a U23 tournament the following year, for which they are not eligible - so it's not a continuity thing. It's totally off. The 2019 U21 year cut off was 1996 (aka U23 in 2019). They qualified for the 2020 Olympics, where the year cut off was 1997 (U23 in 2020 plus 3 overagers). So players are qualifying for a tournament that they may not even be eligible for if they are the max allowed age. It should be renamed the U23 (which is what it really is) and when qualifying begins two years prior, the only players eligible would be players who would still be U23 in two years (ie. current U21s). That's what Concacaf does - the Concacaf U20 tournament is really a U19 tournament because they use the age deadline for the following year when the Fifa U20 happens.

Uefa's U21 is U21 in name only. It's really a U23 tournament. They call it U21 because when qualifying begins two years before the actual tournament its U21, but then the actual tournament happens two years later, they still use the date cutoff from the qualification two years earlier when qualification began so its really a U23. It's the dumbest thing ever. UEFA could easily just say qualification is U21 for the U23 tournmnet two years later, but they don't and call it U21 when it's not. It's especially dumb when you consider that to qualify for the FIFA U20 world cup, they use the UEFA U19. So they acknowledge there that the age category will transform into the one year older group, but for the U21/3 they don't.

Who has the armband now? Vitoria?

David to Tajon!

Boys got a bit selfish there

We did get hit with crazy rain and hail overnight (like 20mm) might have made it soft and gotten a bit ripped

Even though there's no VAR, the ref better be looking at those at half. Next foul, second yellow

How did Vitoria even get up there

He kneed Tajon in the head on purpose when tajon was down

Concacaf needs VAR

Vitoria is so good at passing headers of set pieces

Start of a rout

The ageless wonder!