The Footie Fool

My Romanian is only as good as Google Translate so I may be off the mark here, but it looks like Lars Hirschfeld is shooting for a transfer during the January transfer window in Europe.
In a posting on the CF Cluj website (I’ll link you to the translated Google version), Cluj management has made it [...]

Quickly wanted to poiint you to a couple of interesting Canadian soccer tidbits I’ve come across in the past few days.
First, there is an interview with Dwayne DeRosario in the National Post where he has some unkind words about, surprise surprise, the CSA. Here’s a sample:
They are more concerned about trying to make money [...]

Owen Hargreaves. Jonathan de Guzman. Just two international players who could have donned Canadian colours but choose, for one reason or another, not to. Perhaps that reason is the Canadian Soccer Association.
I’ve always been bitter about Hargreaves choosing to play for England over Canada. But a new interview with Hargreaves in Soccer360 is shedding some [...]

As much as we hoped and prayed for a miracle, it never came. In the end, beating, or even drawing Mexico in Mexico was just too much to expect. But we can take some positives away from this result.

There is decent officiating in CONCACAF. Full marks to the T&T ref who made good calls and [...]

The Miracle in Mexico, the Fracas in Chiapas is going to be live on Sportsnet across Canada regardless of what cable package you have. If you get Sportsnet, you will have the opportunity to witness one of this country’s greatest soccer achievements – the dismantling of Sven Gorran-Erikson’s Mexico.  Game time [...]

Okay, Saturday night is behind me. Time to regroup and prepare for Wednesday. For inspiration, I went back to something I wrote shortly after the Brazil tilt in Seattle.
But the most important take away from this game for me was that we came back. Not once, but  twice. Besides showing some real flair on the [...]

Do or die only counts when you have been mathematically eliminated. And we haven’t been yet. But it’s hard to find a whole lot of confidence that we are going to move onto South Africa after tonight’s performance.
The long desperate ball. Is this really what we have come to? This is not the Canada I [...]

Cheeta posted this in the Voyageur’s forum. It’s brilliant and I had to reprint it here in preparation of tonight’s tangle.
The Football Supporters Rules of Etiquette. Canadian chapter.
There are several simple rules to follow in order to maintain a proper supporter match etiquette. Observance of these rules is vital to improving our chances of victory [...]