The Footie Fool

Dale Mitchell has named his lineup for the upcoming U-20 Friendlies against the U.S. The 2 game U-20 WC warm up matches happen on June 3rd in Ottawa and on June 6 in Kingston. Toronto FC has released Andrea Lombardo for the friendlies meaning he won’t be available for TFC matches against Colorado this weekend [...]

Owen Hargreaves is set to complete his move from Bayern to ManU in a few days, which gives me another reason to dislike ManU. A few years ago Hargreaves was in the position where he could have, because of his citizenship status, played international soccer for a number of countries, including the country here he [...]

Edmonton launches U-20 World Cup site The city of Edmonton has launched a fairly extensive FIFA U-20 World Cup website with information on the 9 matches and teams playing in Edmonton during the tournament. Canadian U-20 (and possible future Portsmouth FC) keeper Asmir Begovic is from Edmonton and posts from time to time on the [...]

Dale Mitchell, long-time Canada U-20 coach and member of the only Canada side to reach a FIFA World Cup in 1986, was named head coach of the Canadian senior men’s side. Press coverage FIFA.com’s coverage Sportsnet CBC Oh, and while the CSA was introducing Mitchell, they also announced another friendly next month in Venezuela.

Some fine fan footage from the stands to the insanity that ensued at BMO Field in Toronto when Toronto FC scored the very first goal in franchise history last weekend. The video of the goal sucks, but the fan reaction is great. The flying things are seat cushions handed out to the fans before the [...]

The Inside Track on CBC radio has a great audio profile on Canadian U-20/Newcastle defender David Edgar. They talk to David about the goal he scored against ManU, and with his family about what it is like to have their son leave home at 14 and travel halfway around the world to play in England. [...]

A bit late in reporting this, but still worthy to note. On May 3rd, the CSA announced that the official opening match of the FIFA 2007 U-20 World Cup on July 1st and the final match on July 22nd have sold out. Both games will take place at the new 20,000 seat National Soccer Stadium [...]

The CBC has an article today that confirms that Canada’s next coach will be Canadian. Which means either current U-20 coach Dale Mitchell or current U-17 coach Stephen Hart. The CBC is speculating that the 49 year old Mitchell is set to get the nod from the CSA, but that he will not be leading [...]