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Impact Off To Portugal For Three Games
MONTREAL,QC — After four weeks of training camp in Montreal, the Impact will continue its winter preparation at the Training Center of Melgaço, located 150 km northeast of Porto. The Impact will fly to Portugal Sunday and will be back in Montreal on March 5.
During its stay in Europe, the Impact will play three exhibition games. The team should face off a second division club, SC Freamunde (League of Honour), Wednesday, February 24 at the Estadio Sport Clube Freamunde, a third division club, GD Ribeirao (Second division, Northern Zone), Saturday, Februray 27 at Estadio do Passal and finally, a first division club, Rio Ave FC (League 1), Wednesday, March 3 at Estadio dos Arcos.
Dramatic Yardstick For All Future Voyageurs Cups
Ben Knight
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Onward!
Expanding the Voyageurs Cup
With this week’s happy news that Edmonton is joining Whatever The Second Division Is Called in 2011, Canada now apparently has four men’s professional soccer teams.
Edmonton sources confirm the CSA has already invited the new team to join Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver in the Voyageurs Cup a year from now.
Much has already been written about possible formats for such a tournament, so I’m going to write from a more emotional perspective.
Maybe you have to live here – and be immersed in the soccer scene – to understand why a true Canadian soccer league is never going to fly. Geography is unalterable. The lack of facilities will take decades to address. Lack of public interest longer still.
As Another One Bites The Dust
Paul James
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TFC not to blame for lack of Canadian talent
After appearing in 26 regular-season games last year, defender Adrian Serioux was released by Toronto FC last week.
Why the 30-year-old Toronto native was deemed surplus to requirements by the new, energized-but-no-nonsense technical staff of Canada’s lone Major League Soccer franchise isn’t the concern. The more significant issue here is the limited depth chart of Canadian soccer talent.
As another one bites the dust, so to speak, it again highlights the need for all three professional franchises in this country – TFC and the Vancouver Whitecaps and Montreal Impact of the United States Soccer Federation Division 2 – to address their development model for nurturing young Canadian players with the right technical and psychological attributes for competing at the professional level and, by extension, the national team.
