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The Saskatchewan Soccer Association announced their 2007 award winners at the Saskatoon Inn Hotel and Conference Centre today. Kevin Krause and Kailee Marland were named senior players of the year while David Brown and Liz Hudon were named youth players of the year.
Krause represented Saskatchewan this year at the 2007 BMO National Championships Senior Men’s Challenge Cup in Halifax, NS (Hyundai Cup). Marland, meanwhile, was the goaltending star for the University of Saskatchewan.
Canada’s men’s national team will face the Republic of South Africa in an international friendly match on Tuesday 20 November at 12.30 ET / 9.30 PT live on Rogers Sportsnet.
“We know that South Africa will be a strong opponent as they build towards hosting the 2010 World Cup,” says head coach Dale Mitchell. “For us it is an opportunity to test ourselves against a different style of play but in conditions we face regularly in CONCACAF. 2007 has been a positive year for the men’s national team and we would like to continue to build momentum towards the qualifying process that begins in 2008.”
The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) has announced the location for next year’s women’s Olympic qualification tournament. The CONCACAF qualification tournament will take place from 2-13 April in Chihuahua, México.
The tournament will feature six CONCACAF teams including Canada. Canada, the United States, Mexico and Costa Rica will be joined by two yet-to-qualify Caribbean teams. Puerto Rico plays Trinidad & Tobago for one of those two spots and Jamaica plays Cuba for the other spot. The championship draw will take place after those two Caribbean teams have qualified for the final round.
La Confédération des associations de football de l’Amérique du Nord, de l’Amérique centrale et des Caraïbes (CONCACAF) vient de dévoiler le site du tournoi qualificatif de football féminin pour les Jeux Olympiques de 2008, qui aura lieu l’an prochain. Le tournoi qualificatif de la CONCACAF aura lieu en avril au Mexique.
Six pays participeront au tournoi. Le Canada, les États-Unis, le Mexique et le Costa Rica seront rejoints par deux pays issus de la région des Caraïbes qui n’ont pas encore été décidés. Porto Rico affrontera Trinité-et-Tobago pour l’une des places, alors que la Jamaïque devra faire face à Cuba pour déterminer l’autre pays qualifié. Le tirage au sort pour déterminer les groupes et l’ordre des matchs aura lieu après la qualification de ces deux dernières équipes pour le tour final.
Canada’s men’s national team announced the roster today for their international friendly match with the Republic of South Africa. The Canadian players will arrive on Thursday and then have four days of training before their 20 November match next Tuesday in Durban, South Africa. This will be Canada’s senior team’s tenth and final match of the year.
“We know that South Africa will be a strong opponent as they build towards hosting the 2010 World Cup,” says head coach Dale Mitchell. “For us it is an opportunity to test ourselves against a different style of play but in conditions we face regularly in CONCACAF. 2007 has been a positive year for the men’s national team and we would like to continue to build momentum towards the qualifying process that begins in 2008.”
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association has awarded the FIFA World Cup 2014 to the Confederaçao Brasileira de Futebol. FIFA president Joseph Blatter made the announcement today.
Brasil was the only country in the running for the 2014 event. Brasil made its formal presentation this morning at the FIFA House in Zurich. Originally, both Brasil and Colombia had shown interest in the FIFA World Cup 2014. The 2014 event had been promised to a South American country (CONMEBOL or Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol).
Canada’s men’s national team is still the third-ranked country in the CONCACAF region. Canada slipped up three more spots from 54 to 51 in the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Rankings which were released today. They remain third amongst CONCACAF countries, trailing both Mexico and the United States. The rankings look back at each country’s record from the past four years.
The countries below Canada switched spots as Costa Rica fell from fourth to seventh within CONCACAF and Honduras jumped from fifth to fourth within CONCACAF. Cuba (from 8th to 5th) and Panama (from 7th to 6th) also climbed the rankings.
The Canadian Soccer Association emerged from their Ottawa weekend meetings with a new leader and a renewed committment to promoting the growth and development of soccer for all Canadians. Newly-appointed chairman of the board Dominic Maestracci presided over the Friday executive meeting, the Saturday board of directors meeting, and the Sunday general meeting. Dr. Maestracci and the executive also took part in a Monday partners meeting in Toronto.
Dr. Maestracci has been involved in soccer from the regional to national level for more than 40 years. He was even a national referee from 1983 to 1989 and served as a FIFA nominee in 1988 and 1989. He was the president of the Québec Soccer Federation from 2003-2006 and vice-president of the Canadian Soccer Association since 2006. Dr. Maestracci will lead the Canadian Soccer Association until May 2008 when an open vote will be conducted to select a new president at the Annual General Meeting.
Dominic Maestracci has today been named chairman of the board of the Canadian Soccer Association. Maestracci will lead the Canadian Soccer Association until the next general meeting, presently scheduled for May 2008, when an open vote will be conducted to select the next president. He will serve as the chairman of the board, presiding over all meetings of the Association and the Board of Directors.
Maestracci was the vice president of the Canadian Soccer Association. He has served as the chair of the governance committees and has also served on the Canadian Soccer Association’s futsal committee, finance committee, national referee committee, senior amateur committee and FIFA U-20 World Cup national organizing committee. He previously served as vice-president and president of the Québec Soccer Federation. Dominic was both a player (up to the university level) and a coach (at the national level). He was a national referee from 1983 to 1989 and served as a FIFA nominee in 1988 and 1989. Dominic is a full professor of medicine at the Université de Montréal.
