The Footie Fool

The roster has finally been released for Canada’s final World Cup (non) qualifying game against Jamaica. This is a vastly different team than we have seen for the past 2 years with a lot of youth getting the call. Not surprising since we really have nothing left to play for, except pride, and many key [...]

The CSA released the roster for the next 2 Canadian WCQ games against Honduras (Saturday, October 11 in Honduras) and Mexico (in Edmonton Wednesday, October 15) and there are changes aplenty with 7 new names on the roster, and a few familiar ones missing. First, the lose of 2 starters, Dwayne DeRosario and Adrian Serioux [...]

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 [...]

FIFA held the preliminary draw for the 2010 World Cup this past weekend, and Canada’s first CONCACAF hurdle in qualifying for 2010 is now known. Canada (FIFA rank: 54 overall, 4th in CONCACAF) will be facing the Caribbean nation of St. Vincent/Grenadines (FIFA rank: 77 overall, 9th in CONCACAF)) in a 2 leg aggregate coming [...]

It was a heartbreaking way to end a fantastic run by Canada at the Gold Cup. Robbed of the possibility of going to extra time by an unfortunate offside call by an officiating team that, up until the final moments of the game, had been doing a pretty good job in a chippy match. However, [...]

What has surprised me the most about Canada’s great run at the Gold Cup so far has been how much fun I have been having watching Canada play. The last time I had a chance to see our boys playing together internationally was in WC 2006 qualifying and it was a hugely frustrating affair. From [...]

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 [...]