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Ottawa, Ontario – The Canadian Soccer Association today announced it has reached an agreement with the Portuguese Football Federation for its men’s national team to play Portugal in an international friendly on March 26, 2005. The game will be played in Barcelos, which is located 45 minutes Northeast of Porto. “Obviously this is a tremendous opportunity for us and I am delighted to have this game,” said Canadian head coach Frank Yallop. “Portugal reached the European Championship Final and are not only one of the top teams in Europe but also the World. It will be a great experience for some of our young players.” The two countries have faced each other once before and that was on January 26, 1995 in a 1-1 draw at the SkyDome Cup. Following the friendly, the Portuguese will play Slovakia in a World Cup Qualifier on March 30.
Portland junior forward Christine Sinclair needs to make some more room in her trophy case as she has been named a finalist for both the 2004 Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy. Sinclair, North Carolina sophomore Heather O’Reilly and Penn State junior Tiffeny Weimer are the three finalists for the highest individual honor in intercollegiate soccer. The finalists were determined in voting of Division I women’s soccer coaches who are members of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). Sinclair, the West Coast Conference Player of the Year, led the Pilots with 22 goals and 55 points. After redshirting last season to play with the Canadian National Team in the Women’s World Cup, she returned to collegiate play and earned WCC Player of the Week honors three times this season. A member of the Canadian National Team since 2000, she was the offensive MVP of the 2002 Women’s College Cup, scoring the overtime goal that gave Portland its first national title. She is a three-time NSCAA/adidas All-America. The trio will be invited to the Missouri Athletic Club in St. Louis on Friday, Jan. 7, 2005, for a news conference, where the winner of the coveted crystal soccer ball trophy will be revealed. A banquet at the Club that evening will feature the formal presentation of the award.
Ottawa, Ontario – The Canadian Soccer Association today announced it has reached an agreement with the Irish Football Association for its men’s national team to play Northern Ireland in an international friendly on February 9, 2005 in Belfast. “We are starting to put together our schedule for 2005 and I am pleased to have this game,” said Yallop. “It is on the international date and so the majority of the players will be available for selection and this will give me yet another indication of what they are capable of.” The last time the two teams met was on April 27, 1999 in Belfast. The game ended in a 1-1 draw with Marc Bircham scoring on his debut. The first and only other game between the two countries was in the Canada Cup in Edmonton on May 22, 1995 with Canada earning a 2-0 win on goals by Paul Peschisolido.
Impact defender Gabriel Gervais was named professional soccer player of the year at the annual awards gala hosted by the Fédération de soccer du Québec. Named team MVP and A-League Defender of the Year, Gervais won the top honour for 2004 ahead of finalists Sandro Grande and Patrice Bernier.
Gervais was one of a number of award winners on the night. Amy Walsh was named senior female player of excellence.
Ottawa, Ontario – Canada’s Brittany Timko of Coquitlam, BC has earned the adidas Golden Shoe as top scorer at the 2004 FIFA Women’s Under-19 World Championship in Thailand with seven goals in four games despite Canada’s early departure from the tournament following a 3-1 loss to China in the quarterfinal played on Saturday, November 21. Germany’s Anja Mittag was unable to score in the final in which her team took gold after defeating China 2-0 today in Bangkok, Thailand. Mittag ended the tournament with six goals in six games, one short of Timko. The United States earned bronze today after posting a 3:0 win over Brazil in the earlier match of today’s double header. Christine Sinclair won the Golden Boot award with 10 goals in six games in the inaugural FIFA Women’s Under-19 World Championship hosted by Canada in 2002. Sinclair was also awarded the Tournament MVP in 2002.
Coquitlam City Soccer will be remembering Dominic Mobilio at a memorial service on Friday November 19th, 7:30, at Fatima Church, 315 Walker St., Coquitlam. Any pictures or memorabilia of Domenic will be gratefully accepted and incorporated into a display at the church and then moved to a permanent location at the CCS equipment depot. An “open mike” will form part of the service and players, coaches, parents and friends are encouraged to share a memory about Domenic. People who wish to send their condolences to the Mobilio family are asked to send an email to info@coquitlamcitysoccer.com. The tribute page can be directly viewed here.
Canadian midfielder, Tyler Rosenlund (Port Coquitlam, BC) was named to the All-Big West Second Team for his play at top-ranked UC Santa Barbara. Rosenlund was just one of four freshman with UCSB to be recognized by Big West after finishing tied for sixth in the conference with five assists. He also scored two goals during the regular season.
Zug, Switzerland, 16 November 2004 – Infront Sports & Media has signed an exclusive agreement with Rogers Sportsnet, the Canadian broadcaster, for the Canadian broadcast rights to all matches of the 2006 FIFA World Cup ™, which takes place in Germany. This agreement includes rights to broadcast in the following six languages – English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Cantonese and Mandarin. Sportsnet, a dedicated sports broadcaster, has built a strong reputation as a soccer broadcaster in Canada, televising live English Premier League football, Spanish Primera Liga soccer and matches of both the Canadian men’s and women’s national teams. Sportsnet also produces Soccercentral, a football magazine show that airs twice a week.
Current national team coach Frank Yallop is one of eleven new members who will be inducted into The Soccer Hall of Fame in Vaughan, Ontario on April 30, 2005, it was announced today. Yallop, who is being inducted as a player, joins former national team coaches Don Petrie and Tony Waiters in the Hall. Also being inducted next April are former national team players Colin Miller, Wes McLeod, Terry Moore, Garry Ayre, Norman McLeod and Michelle Ring, Making up the eight players being inducted is former England international Sam Chedgzoy, who played and coached in Montreal from 1930 to 1940 and continued to live in Montreal after he retired. The three builders being inducted are Steve Stavro, who was president of the Toronto City Soccer Club in the old Eastern Canada Professional Soccer League, former FIFA referee Sonia Denoncourt, and Georges Schwartz, a former member of the FIFA Amateur Committee, who has been prominent in Quebec soccer for many years. In addition the Hall of Fame has chosen its third Team of Distinction, this time the Westminster Royals of 1928, who were national champions in that year.
