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Ottawa, Ontario – The Canadian Soccer Association today announced its Men’s World Cup Team will play their first World Cup Qualifying match against Belize on Sunday, June 13, 2004 at Richardson Stadium (Queen’s University campus) in Kingston, Ontario at 4:30 p.m.. This will be the team’s first match in the opening round of World Cup Qualifying for the 2006 World Cup. The return leg of the home and away series will be played in Belize on Sunday, June 20.
Ottawa, Ontario – Canadian Men’s World Cup Team head coach Frank Yallop today announced his 15-player squad for a training camp in Ft. Lauderdale and an international friendly against Barbados on January 18.
The players will assemble in Ft. Lauderdale on January 12 and join members of the Olympic team who are currently preparing for the upcoming Final Round of Olympic Qualifying in Mexico, February 2-12. Yallop will add one or two players from the Olympic team for the friendly in Barbados in Bridgetown on January 18 before returning to Florida on January 19 and continuing the camp until January 23.
Ottawa, Ontario – The Canadian Soccer Association today named former Canadian international defender Frank Yallop as head coach of the Men’s World Cup Team, effective January 1, 2004 through to the end of 2006. The contract also holds an option for an extension to 2010. All other terms of the contract are confidential.
The team has been without a head coach since Holger Osieck resigned on September 2. Colin Miller, another former Canadian international and a teammate of Yallop’s acted as interim head coach for the recent friendlies against Finland, Czech Republic and the Republic of Ireland.
On November 23rd, Yallop led the San Jose Earthquakes to their second MLS Championship in his three-year tenure as head coach with a 4-2 win over the Chicago Fire in the MLS Cup.
Canada has drawn Belize as its opponent in the opening round of World Cup Qualifying for the 2006 World Cup. The Central American country is ranked No. 174 in the FIFA World Rankings and is located east of Guatemala on the Caribbean Sea coast. The World Cup Draw was made in Frankfurt, Germany today.
The home and away series with Belize will take place on June 13 in Canada (site to be determined) and June 19 or 20, 2004 in Belize City. The winner advances to the semi-final round.
The first stage saw the 34 CONCACAF nations drawn into groups to decide who will progress. The teams were drawn into ten groups of three and two groups of two.
Ottawa, Ontario – Canadian Women’s World Cup Team Head Coach Even Pellerud has named 17-players for a nine day training camp in Fort Lauderdale, Florida from Dec. 5 – 13, 2003 in preparation for the CONCACAF Olympic Qualification trournament in Costa Rica from February 25 – March 7, 2004.
The training camp will be Canada’s first since they placed fourth at the 2003 FIFA Women’s World Cup USA following a 3-1 loss to the United States on October 11, 2003 in the third place match.
Ottawa, Ontario – L’entraîneur-chef de l’équipe canadienne féminine de Coupe du monde, Even Pellerud, a dévoilé aujourd’hui son alignement de 17 joueuses qui prendront part à un camp d’entraînement de neuf jours à Fort Lauderdale, en Floride, du 5 au 13 décembre 2003, en préparation pour le tournoi de qualification olympique de la CONCACAF, du 25 février au 7 mars 2004, au Costa Rica.
Il s’agira de la première réunion des joueuses canadiennes depuis leur défaite de 3 à 1 contre les États-Unis en finale pour la troisième place de la Coupe du monde 2003 de la FIFA, le 11 octobre 2003 en Californie.
Thirty-four CONCACAF teams will know their route to the FIFA World Cup Finals Germany 2006 this week when the Qualifying draw takes place on 5 December 2003 in Frankfurt, Germany.
The qualifying campaign will kick off on 18 February 2004 with the last games scheduled for 12 and 16 November 2005; almost two years of intense competition to see who will represent the Confederation in Germany 2006.
Ottawa, Ontario – The Canadian Soccer Association today announced the appointment of Sylvie Béliveau as CSA National Staff Coach – Community Development, effective January 1, 2003 and David Benning as Technical Programs Manager, effective immediately.
Béliveau, a former member of the Canadian Soccer Association Board of Directors as Director: Female soccer, Head Coach of the Women’s National Team from 1991-96 where she coached the Canadian team to their first World Championship in 1995, and Assistant Coach from 1986-91.
Former CSA President Fred Stambrook and former national team player Tony Nocita were inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame this past weekend in a ceremony held on Saturday, November 15th in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Fred Stambrook was inducted in the builder category; he first became a member of the Executive of the Manitoba Minor Soccer Association (MMSA) in 1970 and was elected as the first Vice President for the association in 1974. He served as President of the Canadian Youth soccer Association from 1975-79 and as member of the board for the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) for 12 years until 1986. In that time, Stambrook held the position of President of the Manitoba Soccer Association (MSA) from 1980-86 and became President of the CSA in 1986 for three consecutive terms to lead a successful Canadian effort to qualify for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico City. Following his tenure as President of the CSA, Stambrook continued as Past-President for the CSA from 1992-98. Stambrook also sat on the Board of the Canadian Olympic Association from 1986-92 and 1998.
