The Footie Fool

While there is a bit of a breather in Gold Cup action for Canada, I thought I would catch up on some U20 World Cup news. We’re just over 2 weeks away from the start of the tournament and the media coverage is starting to kick up here in Canada. If you are not familiar [...]

Man, what a difference 2 months make. In March I was blogging about the sad state of Canadian soccer as we languished at #103 in the FIFA rankings. 2 months later we now have our best showing since 1996, rising to #56 and sitting 5th in CONCACAF. We haven’t sat that high since December 1996, [...]

Despite the fact that we made some major defensive mistakes, Canada beat Haiti 2-0 at the Gold Cup Monday night and have now advanced to the quarter-finals. Overall, a pretty solid effort from the team, but still not the complete cohesive game like we saw against Costa Rica. Haiti had opportunities and keeper Pat Onstad [...]

I started this post after the Canada – Guadeloupe Gold Cup game Saturday but didn’t have a chance to finish it and post until this morning. By now, the Canada-Haiti result is in, but I’m resisting the temptation to check on the score as I’ve got the game tapped and waiting for me when I [...]

U.S. to name squad next week. U.S. Head Coach Thomas Rongen will announce his World Cup roster next week and the full team will regroup in New Jersey on June 17 to begin their final preparations. Scotland coach Tommy Wilson praises HIBS’ youth system. Hibernian FC youth system could pave the way for success in [...]

Spain U-20 coach Gines Melendez has named his 21-man squad for the U-20 World Cup. The squad is strong on Spanish first and second division players and as a result, Spain has to be considered one of the tournament favorites and will look to improve on their quarter final exit at the hands of Lionel [...]

Here are some video hilights I found of the 3 goals scored in Canada’ s 2-1 Gold Cup victory over Costa Rica last night. Costa Rica goal by Walter Centeno Canada: 1st goal by Julian de Guzman Canada: 2nd goal by Julian de Guzman

2 goals by Julian De Guzman led Canada to a massive 2-1 victory against Costa Rica to open the 2007 Gold Cup in Florida. It was a great game for Canada. All the big guns for Canada came to play, with fantastic performances by De Guzman, Atiba Hutchinson, Dwayne DeRosario and Rob Friend. Canada controlled [...]