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Ottawa, Ontario – The Canadian Soccer Association today announced the hiring of its new Director of Communications. Earl Cochrane, currently the National Teams Administrative Manager, will take over the CSA Communications Department as of September 1st, 2005. The search for Cochrane’s replacement will commence immediately.
Cochrane, 36, has been the National Teams Administrative Manager for five years. During his tenure with the National Teams program, the Toronto native managed all of Canada’s Youth teams (male and female) as well as the Olympic, Pan-American, and Francophone Games teams.
In addition to his managerial duties, Cochrane also acted as the Press Officer during the FIFA World Championships in Argentina 2001, Edmonton 2002, UAE 2003, Thailand 2004, and has handled the media responsibilities for all of the U17 and U20 CONCACAF Qualifiers since 2001. Most recently, he served as the Press Officer for the Men’s National Team during the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Ottawa, Ontario – The Canadian Soccer Association announced today its Men’s World Cup Team will play friendlies against Spain and Luxembourg this fall. The Canadians will travel to Spain to take on the Spanish (currently No. 9 in the FIFA rankings) on Saturday, September 3. Canada will also head back to Europe to play Luxembourg on November 16. Both games are to be played on international dates.
“Obviously Spain represents another very difficult opponent,” said Canadian head coach Frank Yallop who yesterday returned from the Gold Cup where Canada finished with a 1-2 record after posting a 2-1 win over Cuba on Tuesday. “Playing against these strong teams will help us as we look to the future of the program. We are trying to get a balance between playing in Europe which is easier for our players and the need to play more games at home in our region.”
“I was pleased overall with our performances at the Gold Cup and I feel we were unlucky to not get through to the quarter-finals. If we had finished off a few more of the chances that we created then we would be in Houston right now preparing to play Mexico. The Spain game will allow us the opportunity to keep looking at potential players and see if they can handle stepping up another level.”
Foxboro, MA – Canada’s Men’s National Team will conclude Group B action of the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup™ today at Gillette in Foxboro, MA when they entertain Cuba at 9pm ET.
If the Canadians hope to advance beyond the opening round, they must win tonight and hope that results in Miami fall their way (see below). In fact, since the Colombia vs. Trinidad match in South Florida will have concluded by the time the Canadians kickoff this evening, the young Canucks will know just what they need to do in order to stay alive and book their passage to Houston, TX for the Quarter-finals.
Seattle, WA, USA – It always seems that when a Canadian and an American team play each other, regardless of the gender, sport, or age, the atmosphere is a tad more electric.
That should be the feeling this afternoon in Seattle’s Qwest Field when Canada and the USA meet in the second match of their 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup campaign.
The meeting will be the twenty-eighth time (more than any other opponent – Mexico is second with 23) these cross-border rivals have met with the Americans holding the slight edge in the series. Canada’s all-time record vs. the USA is 9 wins, 7 draws, and 11 losses.
VANCOUVER, B.C. – Former Canadian international and Vancouver Whitecaps FC Director of Soccer Operations, Bob Lenarduzzi, is in Victoria today to receive the Order of British Columbia.
Bob Lenarduzzi has been a Vancouver sports icon for over two decades, excelling as a player, coach, and general manager. Over his career, he has represented Canada at World Cup and Olympic levels. As a player and coach with the 86ers, he won four straight Canadian league championships, making him the most successful coach in Vancouver professional sports history. He was twice named Canadian Soccer League’s coach of the year. He has also spent countless hours promoting and fostering soccer in Canada, running numerous youth camps and clinics.
The eighth edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup™ will take place in a record seven stadiums in six cities across the USA from 6-24 July. The 2005 event features more games in more cities than ever before will once again crown the region’s top national team.
Group A, the first of three First Round Groups, which will be based in Miami’s Orange Bowl, contains Central American Qualifiers Honduras and Panama, Trinidad & Tobago from the Caribbean and one of two guest teams, Colombia.
In Group B, playing games in Seattle’s Qwest Field before moving to the Gillette Stadium in Foxboro near Boston, includes Central American champions Costa Rica, both Canada and the USA from North America and Cuba from the Caribbean.
Canada’s Katie Thorlakson, has been nominated for an ESPY Award. The ESPY Awards were created by sports channel ESPN in 1993 and are presented for Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly. The 2005 ESPY Awards will be held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles for the fourth straight year. Past venues include the MGM Grand (2000-01), The Paramount at Madison Square Garden (1993-94) and Radio City Music Hall (1995-99). [cast your vote] Thorlakson, who plays college soccer for Notre Dame, was chosen as the 2004 Soccer America Women’s Player of the Year. The forward finished her junior season with 70 points (23 g, 24 a), placing herself in the company of UNC’s Mia Hamm and Lindsay Tarpley and Santa Clara’s Mandy Clemens as the only players to reach 23 goals and 23 assists in one season. She tallied 27 points (9 g, 9 a) in Notre Dame’s nine postseason games, setting a new Irish record for points in one postseason. She broke Anne Makinen’s record set in 1997 (19 pts: 8 g, 3 a) with a goal in ND’s 2-0 win over Connecticut (Nov. 20). She led the Irish to the national championship.
Ottawa, Ontario – Canada’s Women’s World Cup Team will play the United States at 3:00 pm ET on Sunday, June 26 at the Virginia Beach Sportsplex in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Eighteen players have been selected for the friendly including veteran Charmaine Hooper who has been capped 121 times for Canada.
The Vancouver Whitecaps are impressively represented with seven members listed on the roster; Sasha Andrews (Edmonton, AB), Randee Hermus (Langley, BC), Kara Lang (Oakville, ON), Andrea Neil (Vancouver, BC), Sophie Schmidt (Abbotsford, BC), Katie Thorlakson (Langley, BC), and Brittany Timko (Coquitlam, BC).
In their last encounter, Canada suffered a 1-0 loss in a friendly played in Nashville, Tennessee on July 3, 2004.
Fans can follow the game live on ussoccer.com’s MatchTracker.
Ottawa, Ontario – L’équipe canadienne féminine de Coupe du monde affrontera les États-Unis, dimanche le 26 juin à 15 h 00 (heure de l’Est) au Sportsplex de Virginia Beach, en Virginie.
Dix-huit joueuses ont été sélectionnées pour ce match amical, incluant le vétéran Charmaine Hooper, qui compte 121 sélections pour le Canada.
Les Whitecaps de Vancouver ont sept représentantes au sein de l’alignement : Sasha Andrews (Edmonton, AB), Randee Hermus (Langley, C.-B.), Kara Lang (Oakville, ON), Andrea Neil (Vancouver, C.-B.), Sophie Schmidt (Abbotsford, C.-B.), Katie Thorlakson (Langley, C.-B.), and Brittany Timko (Coquitlam, C.-B.).
