Huh. I was assuming we'd be in Vancouver under the dome. We know it would sell out and it is sort of their turn with the early games having been in Toronto and Edmonton. Also, the weather advantage of a cold game would be less against the US than against one of our warmer weather opponents. At some point there's a balance of how much benefit there is versus how much our skill game also suffers.
That game is between away games to Panama and El Salvador. Flying in and out of Central America is easier from Toronto than Vancouver. Also, at that time of year, the weather would be similar to Edmonton last night but with a better pitch. We have the advantage that our guys already went through this already
I saw an article on the Globe and Mail suggesting Hamilton. Eastern time zone for travel but turf instead of grass in Toronto.
Canada's road to Qatar Jonathan David - Inter Milan has emerged as the latest club wanting to sign David after Liverpool. https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...d-elite-striker-lille-ligue-1-inter-liverpool France - Ligue 1 F Jonathan David played 80 minutes and scored both goales for Lille in a 2-2 tie with Monaco Jonathan David at the double part 2#CanMNTpic.twitter.com/ccBUPn8rah— Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic (@AlexGangueRuzic) November 19, 2021 Germany - Bundesliga LB Alphonso Davies played the last 38 minutes for Bayern Munich in a 2-1 loss to Augsburg Germany - 2. Bundesliga CB Scott Kennedy played the full game for Jahn Regensburg in a 4-1 loss to Hamburger SV Belgium - First Division A F Iké Ugbo played the final 14 minutes for Genk in a 2-1 loss to Beerschot Turkey - Super Lig LB Sam Adekugbe played the full game for Hatayspor in a 3-1 win against Antalyaspor F Cyle Larin played the full game while M Atiba Hutchinson played 46 minutes for Besiktas in a 2-0 loss to Alanyaspor Greece - Super League CB Derek Cornelius played the full game for Panetolikos in a 1-0 win against Apollon Smirnis Serbia - Super Liga GK Milan Borjan started for Belgrade Red Star in a 5-1 win against Mladost Lucani M Stefan Mitrovic played for Radnicki Nis in a 1-1 tie with Napredak England - League One F Theo Corbeanu played 64 minutes and scored a goal for Sheffield Wednesday in a 3-2 win against Accrington 🔊 Volume up! Our fans here 🙌Morning Owls! pic.twitter.com/NdKRdrislO— Sheffield Wednesday (@swfc) November 21, 2021 F Daniel Jebbison played the full game for Burton Albion in a 1-0 loss to MK Dons Portugal - Cup CB Steven Vitoria played the full game and score a goal for Moreirense in a 3-2 win against Vitoria de Guimaraes Steven Vitoria with the slam dunk 💨After a strong camp with the #CanMNT, Vitoria has gotten right back into things with Moreirense, captaining them in a cup tie vs Vitoria de Guimares today, scoring a goalHere’s the goal. What a leap & header from himpic.twitter.com/j1Sbo24fKR— Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic (@AlexGangueRuzic) November 21, 2021 Scotland - League Cup Semi-final M Scott Arfield played 69 minutes and scored a goal for Rangers in a 3-1 loss to Hibernian Scott Arfield is finding his form againStarting regularly for Rangers again, Arfield found his 2nd goal of 21/22 today, clawing 1 back down 3-0 v Hibernian in the League Cup SFsHere it is. Nice awareness and goalMight he return to the #CanMNT in Jan?pic.twitter.com/gTc4Pzf6Bx— Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic (@AlexGangueRuzic) November 21, 2021 M David Wotherspoon played 51 minutes for St. Johnstone in a 1-0 loss to Celtic Uruguay - Primera Division Clausura CB Martin Amuz played the full game for Villa Espanola in a 3-0 loss to Liverpool FC Canada - Premier League semifinals The defending champions Forge FC defeats York United 3-1 and advance to their 3rd consecutive final Pacific FC defeats Cavalry 2-1 in extra time and advance to the CPL Finals on December 5 Canada - Canadian Championship Final CF Montreal defeats Toronto FC 1-0. They qualify to the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League alongside with Forge FC Canada - BC League 1 The league announced Unity FC as an expansion club based in Langley, BC View attachment 207392 Canada - U Sports men's soccer championship Montreal Carabins (Montreal University) defeated Carlton Ravens (Carlton University in Ottawa) 3-2 on penalties. They are the best team in Canada out of 48!
Besiktas 1-2 Ajax Besiktas scored first, but they lost all 5 games with a -11 goal differential, and Ajax won all 5 games with a +13 goal differential. Hutchinson was subbed on in the 81st, and Larin got a yellow in the 88th. Besiktas's last chance at points is at Dortmund, and Besiktas is the only Champions League club without a point. The last club to lose all 6 games was AEK Athens in 2018-2019.
So that's five confirmed now? Altitude (North Vancouver), Rivers (Kamloops), TSS (Burnaby), Unity (Langley), and the Whitecaps reserve team (Vancouver)? There were rumours that the Victoria Highlanders intended to move over. Possibly a reserve team from Pacific as well? I know they were hoping to start with eight teams.
Canada's road to Qatar Canada Soccer has confirmed that the next home game will be at the home of CPL Champions Forge FC - Tim Horton's Field in Hamilton, Ontario. Cyle Larin is linked to Watford and Newcastle Stephen Eustaquio - Seems like he's really good... View attachment 207537 CONCACAF - League CPL Champions Forge FC came back from a 2 goal deficit to tie the game 2-2 against Honduras-side Motagua. The return game is next week in Honduras UEFA - Champions League F Jonathan David played 90 minutes and scored the winning goal for Lille in a 1-0 win against Salzburg - 2nd best player in CONCACAF #CanMNT striker Jonathan David just cannot stop scoring 🥶(🎥: @DAZN_CA) pic.twitter.com/txGepJU5hP— OneSoccer (@onesoccer) November 23, 2021 LB Alphonso Davies played the full game and was "man of the match" for Bayern Munich in a 2-1 win against Dynamo Kiev - Best player of CONCACAF View attachment 207532 F Cyle Larin played the full game while M Atiba Hutchinson played the last 9 minutes for Besiktas in a 2-1 loss to Ajax UEFA - Europa League F Iké Ugbo played the full game and scored a goal for Genk in a 1-1 tie with Dinamo Zagreb Here’s Iké Ugbo’s 1st #UEL goal for Genk, & it’s a big one, putting them back on track towards potential qualification And what a way to get it. Great strength, technique and IQ to get a goal like thisLooks like the #CanMNT have a player on their handspic.twitter.com/qnuKCvDEwx— Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic (@AlexGangueRuzic) November 25, 2021 GK Milan Borjan started for Belgrade Red Star and had 2 saves 1-0 win against Ludogorets Razgrad M Scott Arfield the final 9 minutes for Rangers in a 2-0 win over Sparta Prague UEFA - Conference League F Liam Millar played 64 minutes for FC Basel in a 3-2 win over Kairat Almaty Scotland - Premiership M Harry Paton played the full game with the assist and was "man of the match" for Ross County in a 1-0 win against Hibernian England - League One F Daniel Jebbison played 70 minutes and scored 2 goals for Burton Albion in a 4-0 win against Accrington Daniel Jebbison is at the double ❎2️⃣The 🇨🇦 FW is starting to find his legs for Burton now, as he scored a brace in a big 4-0 league win over Accrington today, giving him 5 in 21/22Here are the goals. Great ST instinctsMight the #CanMNT call in Jan?pic.twitter.com/kB2MoAeFGo— Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic (@AlexGangueRuzic) November 24, 2021 F Theo Corbeanu played the full game with the assist for Sheffield Wednesday in a 2-1 win against MK Dons And for those who haven’t seen Theo Corbeanu’s assist from today yet, here it isGreat overlapping run from him, and a nice cutbackHis attacking instincts continue to impress no matter where he plays#canMNTpic.twitter.com/1E8e1gMzmN— Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic (@AlexGangueRuzic) November 24, 2021
Canada's road to Qatar FC Porto's shopping list identifies Stephen Eustaquio yet again. His current club Pacos de Ferreira had refuse to sell him as the club were competing in Europa Conference League. Germany - Bundesliga LB Alphonso Davies played the full game for Bayern Munich in a 1-0 win over Arminia Bielefeld - Speed! 𝙎𝙋𝙀𝙀𝘿𝙔 𝙋𝙃𝙊𝙉𝙕𝘼𝙇𝙀𝙎 ⚡💨#packmas #FCBDSC pic.twitter.com/IYD4T6otiS— FC Bayern Munich (@FCBayernEN) November 27, 2021 France - Ligue 1 F Jonathan David played the full game for Lille in a 1-1 tie with Nantes. Portugal - Liga Portugal CB Steven Vitoria played the full game and score a goal for Moreirense in a 2-2 tie with Gil Vicente Vitoria is underrated #CANMNTpic.twitter.com/V5grxlVTNq— 𝕲𝖑𝖆𝖘𝖘𝕮𝖎𝖙𝖞 (@GlassCityFC) November 27, 2021 M Stephen Eustaquio played the full game in a 2-0 loss to Maritimo Scotland - Premiership M Scott Arfield played the full game and scored a goal for Rangers in a 3-1 win against Livingston Scott Arfield with a beauty 🔥Continuing his integration back into the Rangers XI, Arfield went 90 in a 3-1 win vs Livingstone today, scoring his 3rd goal of the seasonHere’s the goal. Fantastic run, touch and chipIs he in #CanMNT level form again?pic.twitter.com/yAvfuVIM4b— Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic (@AlexGangueRuzic) November 28, 2021 M Harry paton played the full game for Ross County in a 1-1 tie with Dundee United Russia - Premier League F Ritchie Ennin played the last 27 minutes for Nizhny Novgorod in a 0-0 tie with Krylya Sovetov Belgium - First Division A F Iké Ugbo played the full game for Genk in a 3-2 loss to Club Brugge Turkey - Super Lig LB Sam Adekugbe played the full game for Hatayspor in a 4-0 loss to Sivasspor F Cyle Larin played the full game for Besiktas in a 4-0 loss to Giresunspor Switzerland - Super League LW Liam Millar played the second half for FC Basel in a 3-1 win over Luzern Greece - Super League CB Derek Cornelius played the full game for Panetolikos in a 1-0 loss to Panathinaikos Serbia - Super Liga M Stefan Mitrovic played 75 minutes for Radnicki Nis and scored a goal in a 3-0 win over FK Radnik Surdulica Stefan Mitrovic is on a roll 🔥The 19 y/o 🇨🇦 is in great form for Radnicki Nis, scoring his 5th goal in 17 games today in a 3-0 win, one that pushes his team into 6th place in the 🇷🇸 leagueHere’s the goal. Great touch & volley to bury#CanMNT in Jan?pic.twitter.com/44l0fAHfCw— Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic (@AlexGangueRuzic) November 28, 2021 GK Milan Borjan started for Belgrade Red Star in a 3-0 win against FK Spartak Subotica England - League One F Daniel Jebbison played 88 minutes and scored a goal for Burton Albion in a 2-0 win against Doncaster. Sheffield United is expected to recall him for their Championship campaign. Daniel Jebbison is on 🔥The #CanMNT eligible FW picked up his 3rd goal of this week in a 2-0 Burton win over Doncaster. He now has 4 league goals (6 all comps)Here is the goal. Great awareness to flick this in with his back to goalSheffield (& 🇨🇦)🔜?https://t.co/8DoxvyUmmK— Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic (@AlexGangueRuzic) November 27, 2021 F Theo Corbeanu played the last 17 minutes for Sheffield Wednesday in a 2-2 tie with Wycombe South Korea - K-League 1 Final Group B CB Doneil Henry played the full game for Suwon Bluewings in a 0-0 tie with Ulsan Hyundai Chile - Primera Division RB Juan Cordova played the last 4 minutes for Huachipato in a 2-0 loss to Universidad Catolica Canada - BC League 1 The league announced Victoria Highlanders as an expansion club based on Vancouver Island. They will be joining Altitude FC, North Vancouver Rivers FC, Kamloops TSS Rovers FC, Burnaby Unity FC, Langley Vancouver Whitecaps* *CSB/CPL are already assisting the league with their marketing and helping its launch. The intention if for CPL to acquire BC League 1 like they did in Ontario. Sooo...one of the Whitecaps team will be under CSB/CPL umbrella...FUNNY! View attachment 207866
Six is good. I know they are hoping to start with eight but six is at least enough as a decent starting point. I'm also glad that they will have at least two founding teams from outside metro Vancouver. One problem for the PLSQ is that many seasons they've really been the PLSM with pretty much every club in and around Montreal. Since the whole point of the D3 leagues is to spread the talent net, especially to areas that don't have pro teams, being in more cities is great. I'm not sure why it's funny? Personally, I like the integration of the D3 leagues regardless of who owns or runs the individual teams. Plus the Canadian MLS teams had already reached out to the CPL about having teams in the CPL before the CPL started. I understand the reasons that the CPL didn't want that but the MLS teams didn't see a problem with having teams under the CSB/CPL umbrella then so I don't know why it would be a problem now. From a NT talent perspective, we benefit most when there's a good relationship between the CPL and the MLS teams.
I think they are expecting 7 To be fair, half the province lives in Montreal Metro area while Beauport is closed to Quebec City. The club in St-Jean-sur Richelieu is deep south shore while the Ottawa club switch to Quebec since they are closer to Montreal than the GTA. Contrarily to popular belief, It's actually the other way around - MLS Clubs tried to join the league with their reserve teams on their terms AND dictate how the league should function. CPL actually met and heard them out wanting to work with them but MLS clubs rejected league's demand such as branding on their reserve teams being identified as such while the league was open with them owning but NOT operating as a reserve team. From echoes from those talks, they didn't go in that meeting in good fate and the intent to make it clear that CPL was not Canada's D1 while wanting the league to be set up to feed their system first and foremost. It's not that MLS clubs don't want the league around, they never liked the "Division 1" sanction and they lobbied against it up until May 2017. Even Don Garber was quick to brand it as a lower division. I mean, CPL 1st employee was Paul Beirne - who was TFC 1st employee. You couldn't get a better guy to make it work with the 3 clubs than him who's always been a fan of MLS and TFC. The most toxic out of the 3 was Bill Manning of TFC who viewed Ontario as their personal turf. They even tried to move their USL club to Hamilton when the city was in a dispute with Forge over Tim Horton's Field. It took the CSA to preemptively warn that no clubs would be sanction out of Hamilton but Forge. Montreal views the entire province of Quebec as their own, although they never cared to look outside of their academy system. They never cared about the Maritimes.Their reaction to a CPL club in Quebec and Montreal will be interesting. I must say that the Vancouver organization has truly come around and are being cooperative and positive about the league. (that's after after trying to sabotage CPL in Calgary with the CSA having to blocked the Whitecaps from putting a USL team there). They went from "we own Manitoba to BC" to sharing BC and coexisting with CPL/CSB. I was a HUGE fan of the 3 clubs from 2012 to 2016 - but stuff like this made me lose tons of respect for those clubs, this was unbelievably unnecessary. My problem isn't with MLS at all but I sure damn expected much better from those 3 ownerships
Even better. I'm not really criticizing the PLSQ so much as pointing out the reality. It's not easy or else it would already be done. I'd just like to see Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivieres, Gatineau, another QC team, and Drummondville, for example. Even L1O, which has by far the most sizeable cities to put teams in, has only just started getting meaningful numbers of teams outside the GTA in the past couple of years. And they still aren't in places like Kitchener, Cambridge, or Kingston. I wasn't in any of the meetings and, honestly, I'm not really concerned about whose fault it is that the CPL-MLS relationship is rough. The CPL was the new, pro D1 league and the MLS teams didn't want to treat them that way. Or the MLS teams had invested hundreds of millions of dollars establishing pro soccer in Canada and a bunch of teams that hadn't even kicked a ball yet wanted to be treated as equals. The MLS teams need to look beyond their own academies for talent. Or the CPL needs to stop putting up barriers to loan deals. Whatever the facts and however people want to interpret them, it is bad for us all that the relationship isn't smooth. As much as Europe is the goal, CPL to MLS is an obvious step along the way and should be an easy one.
PLSQ isn't ran as efficiently as L1O - dare I say that BC League 1 will be better ran than PLSQ from the onset having read the league's operating manual. Might be the reality of the province where outside of Montreal, soccer isn't that popular and CF Montreal has failed spectacularly at rallying the province behind them and making the sport bigger... they can't even get regional support while pissing off their own fans in their own city It's totally fine to not see them as such and not doing business with CPL - but trying to set a negative narrative about the league before it kicked a ball was disappointing - especially when everyone agreed that it was needed They didn't want reserve teams in their league nor clubs being ran as such which makes total business sense. Disagreeing and not being part of it is one thing, interfering with the project because you didn't get your way was petty and beneath them Why? If anything it opened more opportunity to players those MLS teams have been snubbing for years, players that are proving that they shouldn't have been overlooked with the way they compete nationally and regionally. Doing what you're suggesting denies those guys these opportunities. The better question is - why aren't they putting reserve teams in PLSQ and L1O? Why aren't they working with CSB to launch a D2 where putting MLS reserve clubs would actually make sense? Maybe this will change over time but initially, they were more interested in controlling the league than cooperating with it. Weird that CPL is closer to European leagues than its neighbour MLS, a shame indeed. They are free to sign CPL players whenever they want like Joel Waterman at CF Montreal. What the league won't do is being the 3 clubs exclusive developmental system, which makes zero business sense.
TFC has both TFC III and TFC Academy (so their U19 and U17 squads) in L1O. The TFC-affiliated Windsor TFC team also plays in L1O. I'm not sure why Montreal doesn't seem interested in the PLSQ. Having MLS reserve clubs in a CPL2 would make sense if we get to the point where a CPL2 makes sense.
Canada's road to Qatar Liverpool looking to sign Jonathan David from Lille who would be asking around £29.7M. Arsenal are said to be interested as well while AC MIlan are looking to make an offer for ~€40M 1466379760376897539 is not a valid tweet id There's a young prospect to watch for at CB. 19 years old Juvy Kooner has been training with 1st team Braga ❗️News | 19 year old 🇨🇦 CB Juvy Kooner training with the first team @SCBragaOficial#CanMNT pic.twitter.com/IJUg8N6Snx— CANSOCCER (@cansoccerfeed) December 2, 2021 CONCACAF - League Forge FC tied Honduras-side Motagua 0-0 who will advance to the league's final on away goals (2-2). Interestingly enough, Honduras fans gave a standing ovation to Forge players as they were leaving the pitch for an exciting game. No teams in CONCACAF played that amount of games (40 games since end of June) and travelled back and forth to Central America improving mproved from last year's quarterfinal appearance They will be back this Sunday for the CPL Finals against Pacific FC & this February in CONCACAF Champions League France - Ligue 1 F Jonathan David played 71 minutes for Lille in a 2-1 win over Rennes Scotland - Premiership M Scott Arfield played the last 24 minutes for Rangers in a 1-0 win over Hibernian M Harry Paton played the full game for Ross County in a 0-0 tie with St. Mirren Serbia - Super Liga GK Milan Borjan started for Belgrade Red Star in a 1-0 win against Vozdovac Denmark - Superligaen CB Manjrekar James played the full game for Vejle Boldklub in a 1-1 tie with Midtylland Turkey - Cup LB Sam Adekugbe subbed in for Hatayspor in a 1-1 win (5-4 penalties) against Eyupspor Greece - Cup CB Derek Cornelius played the full game for Panetolikos in a 1-0 win over Niki Volou Uruguay - Primera Division Clausura CB Martin Amuz played the full game for Villa Espanola in a 4-2 loss to River Plate United States - Major League Soccer Tajon Buchanan has played his last MLS game with New England Revolution and scored a goal in extra time. He will be joining Belgium-side Club Brugge. Tajon Buchanan apparently hasn’t thawed out yet from the Iceteca because he has ICE in his veinsWhat a goal to tie up the game here for the #NeRevs right in the 118th minute. Doesn’t get more clutch than this2021 to remember continues for him#CanMNTpic.twitter.com/Tmm6PseXqS— Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic (@AlexGangueRuzic) December 1, 2021
Canada's road to Qatar Canada - Premier League Final Pacific FC from Vancouver Island are Canada's Champions! They defeat the 2 times champions Forge FC 1-0 in Hamilton to capture their 1st championship They will represent Canada in the 2022 CONCACAF League! The 25 years old Brazilian striker Joao Morelli has won the Golden boot with 14 goals representing the Halifax Wanderers Morelli wins the GOLDEN BOOT 🏆@Jmorelli_96 has secured the 2021 Golden Boot Award, scoring 14 regular season goals – a CPL record for most goals scored in a single campaign 🎯 🗞 Read more: https://t.co/RDwhXcYprK#TogetherFromAways #COYW pic.twitter.com/Z16OXpTIUw— Halifax Wanderers FC (@HFXWanderersFC) December 5, 2021 France - Ligue 1 F Jonathan David played the second half to rescue Lille with 1 goal and provoke the other team's own goal in a 2-1 win over Troyes Jonathan David 🔥 equalized for Lille OSC at the start of the second half. It's his 11th goal of the 2021-22 season!pic.twitter.com/kUo4NPbZli— Canada Soccer (@CanadaSoccerEN) December 4, 2021 Germany - Bundesliga LB Alphonso Davies played the full game for Bayern Munich in a 3-2 win over Borussia Dortmund Portugal - Liga Portugal M Stephen Eustaquio played the full game for Paços de Ferreira in a 2-1 loss to Vitoria de Guimaraes Turkey - Super Lig F Cyle Larin played 67 minutes while M Atiba Hutchinson played 88 minutes for Besiktas in 1 1-1 tie with Kasimpaşa LB Sam Adekugbe played the full game for Hatayspor in a 3-0 loss to Istanbul Basaksehir Scotland - Premiership M Scott Arfield played the full game for Rangers in a 3-0 win over Dundee FC Switzerland - Super League LW Liam Millar played 63 minutes for FC Basel in a 1-1 tie with Lausanne Serbia - Super Liga GK Milan Borjan started for Belgrade Red Star in a 2-0 win against Napredak England - FA Cup F Daniel Jebbison played the full game for Burton Albion in a 2-1 loss to Port Vale South Korea - K-League 1 Final Group A CB Doneil Henry played the full game for Suwon Bluewings in a 2-0 loss to Suwon FC Chile - Primera Division LB Juan Cordova played the last 30 minutes for Huachipato in a 3-1 loss to Melipilla Canada - BC League 1 The final club has join the league for its inaugural year. Varsity FC, representing Point Grey in Vancouver Welcome to League1 BC, Varsity Football Club! (@Varsity_FC) https://t.co/AdDc2Brf5CClub Website: https://t.co/ebiVJ5dOwO pic.twitter.com/p1cH3vmdLu— League1 British Columbia (@League1BC) December 3, 2021
Canada's road to Qatar LB Alphonso Davies - Best LB in the world View attachment 208399 CB Julian Dunn has left Toronto FC to sign with Hamarkameratene in Norway D1. The 21 years had been one of the best defenders in CPL with Valour FC in 2020 while playing only 1 game this year with TFC. F Cyle Larin had talks with Norwich and Watford. Now Brighton are interested in both Larin and F Daniel Jebbison https://www.teamtalk.com/brighton/exclusive-seagulls-show-interest-cyle-larin-transfer-besiktas M Stefan Mitrovic will join Canada this January for the friendly game. The 19 years old attacking midfielder will decide which country he will chose between Canada and Serbia after the camp. UEFA - Champions League F Jonathan David played the full game and scored the winning goal for Lille in a 3-1 win over Wolfsberg. He leads Lille to their 2nd ever round of 16 qualification JONATHAN DAVID with the goal that could secure top spot for Lille 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/qEVWxkCThD— DAZN Canada (@DAZN_CA) December 8, 2021 LB Alphonso Davies played 71 minutes for Bayern Munich and collected the assist in a 3-0 win over Barcelona Alphonso Davies. Superstar. (And not just for the #CanMNT 🙏)(🎥: @DAZN_CA) pic.twitter.com/BKZubQHWnt— OneSoccer (@onesoccer) December 8, 2021 He's leaving Sergino Dest (below) and Barcelona far behind and advance to round of 16 LIGHTNING ⚡️Literally the only way to stop @AlphonsoDavies 😂 pic.twitter.com/EEtCFk0sPu— DAZN Canada (@DAZN_CA) December 8, 2021 F Cyle Larin played 69 minutes while M Atiba Hutchinson played the last 8 minutes for Besiktas in a 5-0 loss to Borussia Dortmund. They are now eliminated from the competition. UEFA - Europa League M Scott Arfield played the last 29 minutes for Rangers in a 1-1 tie with Lyon. They are going to Europa League playoffs GK Milan Borjan started for Belgrade Red Star and made 6 save in a 1-1 tie with Braga. They advance to round of 16. F Ike Ugbo played the first half for Genk in a 1-0 loss to Rapid Wien. They are eliminated from the competition UEFA - Europa Conference League LW Liam Millar played the last 27 minutes for FC Basel in a 3-0 win over Qarabag FK. They advance to Europa Conference League round of 16. Serbia - Super Liga M Stefan Mitrovic scored a goal for Radnicki Nis 1-0 win against TSC Backa Topola Stefan Mitrovic has done it again 🔥Fresh off of earning a nod to the #CanMNT January camp, the 19 y/o scored AGAIN today for Radnicki Nis, scoring his 6th goal in 18 games for the 🇷🇸 top flight sideHe’s one to keep an eye on for 🇨🇦. Big things comingpic.twitter.com/RBN0szLRGH— Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic (@AlexGangueRuzic) December 6, 2021 Netherlands - Eerste Divisie F Simon Colyn scored his 1st pro goal for Jong PSV in a 3-2 win over De Graafschap. The 19 years old is currently on loan from the Vancouver Whitecaps. Simon Colyn is off the mark🔥The 19 y/o #VWFC loanee scored his pro 1st goal & added his 1st pro assist in a 3-2 loss for PSV’s U23 team in the 🇳🇱 2nd division yesterdayHere’s both. Great goal, great assistNice to see him find his legs in 🇳🇱#CanMNTpic.twitter.com/YbiqVcjBx8— Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic (@AlexGangueRuzic) December 7, 2021 England - League One F Daniel Jebbison played the first half for Burton Albion in a 2-1 loss to Wycombe
Canada's road to Qatar Hamilton Sold Out! While the USMNT supporters had planned to take a huge amount of tickets during the general sale, Tim Horton's Field is already sold-out before being made available to the general public. Us Voyageurs, really did answered the call on this one1! View attachment 208755 Jonathan David Reports coming from France are saying that Lille don’t want to sell David in January, and they’ll only listen to offers of €55m or more this summer. Best player in CONCACAF? View attachment 208751 Alphonso Davies wins the 2021 Canada Soccer Player of the Year award Alphonso Davies wins 2021 Canada Soccer Player of the Year award#TheBestInCanada 🍁🏆 #CANMNT https://t.co/6F8hrDtKMs pic.twitter.com/EcwpriIoth— Canada Soccer (@CanadaSoccerEN) December 15, 2021 Theo Corbeanu wins the 2021 Canada Soccer Youth Player of the Year award Canada Soccer Youth Players of the YearForward Theo Corbeanu made his international “A” debut in March with #CANMNT and his English Premier League debut in May with @Wolves all before his 19th birthday#TheBestInCanada 🍁🏆 https://t.co/dy4xuzf4G8 https://t.co/pxjAVBqo7c pic.twitter.com/6l4gtzciTv— Canada Soccer (@CanadaSoccerEN) December 14, 2021 Another Centre Back might be eligible CB Sondre Solholm Johansen currently plays at Motherwell in the Scottish Premiership after 3 full seasons in Eliteserien in Norway. The 26 years old is eligible to represent Canada adding more depth to the centre back position 📰 | NEWSCould Canada's centreback 'problem' be on the mend by way of Norway via Scotland?@SondreSolholm: "and I found out recently that I'm eligible to play for the Canadian national team because of my roots."#CanMNT #ForCanada | @AlexGangueRuzic @CanNT_Focus @coachherdman https://t.co/HpsMU1lQGx— Canucks Abroad (@Canucks_Abroad) December 16, 2021 Germany - Bundesliga LB Alphonso Davies played 78 minutes for Bayern Munich in a 5-0 win over VfB Stuttgart Switzerland - Super League LW Liam Millar played the full game and scored a brilliant goal for FC Basel in a 1-1 tie with Young Boys Beautiful Goal by Liam Millar in a very important game against Young Boys! #CanMNT pic.twitter.com/NKjFg1AoBb— CanMNT Prospects (@canmntupdates) December 15, 2021 Scotland - Premiership M Scott Arfield played the full game for Rangers in a 2-0 win over St. Johnstone M Harry Paton played 36 minutes for Ross County in a 2-1 loss to Celtic Belgium - First Division A F Ike Ugbo played the last 9 minutes for Genk in a 4-2 win over Sporting Charleroi Serbia - Super Liga GK Milan Borjan started for Belgrade Red Star in a 1-1 tie with FK Radnik Surdulica M Stefan Mitrovic played the full game for Radnicki Nis in a 2-0 loss to Proleter Greece - Super League CB Derek Cornelius played 59 minutes for Panetolikos in a 1-0 loss to Asteras Tripolis CONCACAF - Champions League "Iceteca II" & Azteca (CAN) Forge FC will face (MEX) Cruz Azul in Hamilton in the middle of February with the return leg being played at Estadio Azteca. View attachment 208752 2009 Rematch (CAN) CF Montreal will face Santos Laguna in Torreon with the return leg being played indoors in the Olympic Stadium. The 2009 game was the series that made Montreal Impact mainstream in the city, before joining MLS. View attachment 208754 Canada - League 1 Ontario After Jonathan De Guzman and Cyle Larin, it's now Doneil Henry who joins the ownership group of an L1O club at Simcoe County Rovers. The 22 teams league was purchased by the Canadian Premier League in 2018 - before its inaugural season. Boss mode. 😎#CanMNT | @L1OMens | @L1OWomens pic.twitter.com/ELJmJqsTO5— OneSoccer (@onesoccer) December 15, 2021
Canada's road to Qatar Jonathan David is Lille's best goal scorer in 55 years https://www.losc.fr/node/109143 West Ham United has joined the race to sign him https://www.teamtalk.com/west-ham-united/steal-march-liverpool-talks-begin-jonathan-david-lille Alphonso Davies is the Bundesliga player of the month of November Give it up for the November #BundesligaPOTM - @FCBayernEN star @AlphonsoDavies! 👏🏅#FIFA22 @EASPORTSFIFA pic.twitter.com/C1VvXOtrBP— Bundesliga English (@Bundesliga_EN) December 16, 2021 17 years old LW Luca Koleosho has been invited to the Men's National U20 team. He currently plays for Espanyol U19. The US invited him has well but scheduling might be an issue Suprising turn of event - GK Milan Borjan asked for his contract with Belgrade Red Star to be terminated. He has an offer from an MLS club. France - Coupe de France F Jonathan David played 88 minutes and scored a goal for Lille in a 3-1 win over Auxerre Gooool, Jonathan David pone el segundo del Lille, el canadiense inició y terminó la jugada para un buen gol del local #LOSCAJA pic.twitter.com/98rIf8ox5X— beIN SPORTS Español (@ESbeINSPORTS) December 18, 2021 Germany - Bundesliga LB Alphonso Davies played the 80 minutes for Bayern Munich in a 4-0 win over Wolfsburg Portugal - Liga Portugal M Stephen Eustaquio played the full game for Pacos de Ferreira in a 1-0 win over Tondela CB Steven Vitoria played the full game for Moreirense in a 1-0 loss to Boavista Scotland - Premiership CB Sondre Solholm Johansen played the full game with the assist and MOTM for Motherwell in a 2-0 win over St. Johnstone Sondre Solholm with a touch of gold 🔑Back from a knock, the #canMNT eligible CB had his 1st assist for Motherwell today, and it was a beauty, helping them pick up a 2-0 win over St.Johnstone, pushing them up to 4th in the SPFLHere it is. Great passpic.twitter.com/Am8XMyr1j8— Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic (@AlexGangueRuzic) December 18, 2021 M Scott Arfield played 64 minutes for Rangers in a 1-0 win over Dundee United Turkey - Super Lig LB Sam Adekugbe played the full game for Hatayspor in a 2-0 loss to Trabzonspor F Cyle Larin played 77 minutes for Besiktas in 2-2 tie with Fenerbahce Belgium - First Division A F Ike Ugbo played the last 20 minutes for Genk in a 1-1 tie with Royal Antwerp Switzerland - Super League LW Liam Millar played 83 minutes for FC Basel in a 2-2 tie with Grasshopper Greece - Super League CB Derek Cornelius played the full game for Panetolikos in a 2-1 win over Atromitos Germany - 2. Bundesliga CB Scott Kennedy came back from injury and played the extra time for Jahn Regensburg in a 2-0 loss to Darmstadt
Thanks again for posting these summary reports. It's very nice to be able to keep abreast of Canadians playing abroad all in one place. With our players developing as they are, I suspect this list will be getting longer and longer over the next few years. For Borjan, transfermarkt has his value at $2.2 million. I'm surprised an MLS team would be looking to spend anything like that to acquire a keeper and then presumably use TAM to pay him and use an international roster spot. He'd be a tremendous goalie by MLS standards but most teams in a salary-capped league don't go that high on their keeper. (I say international spot because the three Canadian MLS teams are all good to okay for keepers and certainly have higher priorities in where they'd be looking to upgrade. So I'm assuming it isn't one of them.)
Canada's road to Qatar The most improved National team of 2021 with a record of 19-4-2...Canada 🇧🇪 Belgium end a fourth straight year on top 🥇🇨🇦 Canada are 2021's 'Most Improved Side' 🥇📈 Check out the year's other big winners in the final #FIFARanking of 2021 👇— FIFA (@FIFAcom) December 23, 2021 The team will play a friendly against Guatemala January 22 in Fort Lauderdale Jonathan David is targeted by Real Madrid who are even considering offering Eden Hazard to land him France - Ligue 1 F Jonathan David played the full game and scored a goal for Lille in a 3-2 win over Bordeaux. As the commentator describes the leading goal scorer in France, "World Class Striker" That's 1️⃣2️⃣ goals in 19 @Ligue1_ENG matches for Jonathan David this 2021-22 season pic.twitter.com/8OXgtbJJfQ— Canada Soccer (@CanadaSoccerEN) December 23, 2021 Turkey - Super Lig LB Sam Adekugbe played 30 minutes (red card) for Hatayspor in a 3-1 loss to Konyaspor F Cyle Larin played 76 minutes and scored a goal for Besiktas in 2-1 win over Göztepe WHAT A GOAL! 💥🇨🇦 Cyle Larin scores the equalizer for @Besiktas to make it 1-1 against @Goztepe! Watch #BJKvGÖZ LIVE NOW on beIN SPORTS!#Superlig 🇹🇷 pic.twitter.com/IxkbW5S6Eq— beIN SPORTS USA (@beINSPORTSUSA) December 23, 2021 Greece - Greece Cup - Round of 16 CB Derek Cornelius played the full game for Panetolikos in a 1-0 win over Niki Volou United States - Major League Soccer CF Montreal acquired RB Alistair Johnston from Nashville SC. The 23 years old who played in York Region academies then League 1 Ontario is one of Canada's most reliable defender. Fans are already talking about an all Canadian back three of Miller, Waterman and Johnston which would further build more chemistry at the national level. United States - MLS next Pro CF Montreal had some criticism towards the project #CFMTL sporting director Olivier Renard on #MLSNextPro "We were interested in the project at the start but it changed a lot on a financial and a sporting level as weeks went by." "I won't buy a house if I don't know the square footage or the number of gardens." https://t.co/UmZbiHeWc3— Tristan D'Amours (@tristandamours) December 24, 2021 Canada - Premier League The league revealed it's top 10 players for the 2021 season. Top 10 #CANPL players, as picked by @CPLsoccer …1. Bekker - CM/31/🇨🇦2. Morelli - AM/25/🇧🇷3. Bustos - RW/25/🇨🇦4. Abzi - LB/23/🇨🇦5. Krutzen - CB/25/🇳🇱6. Cisse - DM/26/🇸🇳7. Klomp - CB/23/🇳🇱8. Ongaro - ST/23/🇨🇦9. Campbell - ST/23/🇨🇦10. MacNaughton - CB/26/🇨🇦— 𝕲𝖑𝖆𝖘𝖘𝕮𝖎𝖙𝖞 (@GlassCityFC) December 23, 2021
Good to see us filling up the calendar. Even if we don't bring a full A team (although we might this time with a WCQ game only a few days later) there are plenty of younger guys to work into the system. Also of note here is the $1 million transfer fee which is pretty good for a defender!
Canada's road to Qatar F Jonathan David made "L'Equipe" Team of the year! David’s in L’Equipe’s Ligue 1 TOTY. #CANMNT pic.twitter.com/QZzWZoXOM2— 𝕲𝖑𝖆𝖘𝖘𝕮𝖎𝖙𝖞 (@GlassCityFC) December 28, 2021 F Cyle Larin might be part of a deal that would send him to Everton in exchange for Cenk Tosun according to Fotomac’s report FB Noah Abatneh (17 years old) who plays for U18 Lazio is said to have accepted a Canada call for the U20 camp Portugal - Liga Portugal M Stephen Eustaquio played the full game and had an assist for Pacos de Ferreira in a 2-1 win over Santa Clara Stephen Eustaquio with a cheeky assist 🍁It might not have been intentional, but Eustaquio picked up his 1st goal contribution of the 🇵🇹 league season today, setting up the 1st of 2 PdF goals in a 2-1 comebackHere it is. Great to see#CanMNTpic.twitter.com/ZNm98rt0QK— Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic (@AlexGangueRuzic) December 30, 2021 CB Steven Vitoria played the full game for Moreirense in a 1-0 win over Estoril Belgium - First Division A F Ike Ugbo played 79 minutes for Genk in a 4-0 win over Oostende Iké Ugbo boxes one home 🥊Given a boxing day start for Genk, Iké Ugbo made the most of it, scoring the opener (and winner) in a 4-0 victory, giving him his 3rd league goal in 21/22 (6th all comps)Here it is. Nice run to find a soft space#CanMNT 🍁pic.twitter.com/ZjExuvYHSK— Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic (@AlexGangueRuzic) December 26, 2021 Turkey - Super Lig F Cyle Larin played 68 minutes while M Atiba Hutchinson played the last 10 minutes in 1-0 loss to Konyaspor Scotland - Premiership M Scott Arfield played the last 22 minutes for Rangers in a 2-0 win over St. Mirren CB Sondre Solholm Johansen played the 79 minutes for Motherwell in a 2-1 win over Livingston England - League One F Theo Corbeanu played the last 31 minutes for Sheffield Wednesday in a 5-0 loss to Sunderland Turkey - Cup LB Sam Adekugbe played the full game for Hatayspor in a 1-0 win over Menemenspor M Atiba Hutchinson scored a goal for Besiktas in 1-0 win over Altay 🐙 𝑨𝒕𝒊𝒃𝒂 𝑯𝒖𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒐𝒏...pic.twitter.com/HbFyMBzBPC— Beşiktaş JK (@Besiktas) December 30, 2021 United States - Major League Soccer RB Alistair Johnstone joined CF Montreal from Nashville SC. He does have both Northern Ireland (UK) & Ireland (Euro) passports and there were multiple offers made for him over the past few months but Alistair was made award of this only last week, is that a common practice in MLS? Canada - Premier League Halifax Wanderers' 20 years old GK Kieran Baskett opted to re-sign with the Wanderers instead of accepting an offer to train with an MLS club. He was fantastic for the club taking the #1 spot away from Christian Oxner. Convincing young players to chose CPL in their developmental years is key to the success of the league Interesting move by Kieran Baskett to stay in the #CanPL & #HFXWanderers. Had an offer to train with a Major League Soccer club but opted to not pursue the opportunity. #CanMNT https://t.co/UGITjCTbOL— Manuel Veth (@ManuelVeth) December 21, 2021
I'd rather see him start in the CPL than end up on the bench in MLS or elsewhere. That said, I'm surprised he wouldn't at least train with them. A lot of players do for the experience even if they don't end up signing elsewhere. I'm looking forward to seeing who gets picked for the NT roster for the upcoming matches. Normally a big part of the roster plays in MLS but they are currently out of season. Maybe Herdman still goes with his regulars or maybe someone new who is playing in Europe gets a chance.