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Busy Month For Canada’s Youth Squads
Busy month ahead for Canadian youth teams
Four Canadian national youth soccer teams will be in action over the next four weeks heading into a busy month of August. Canada’s national men’s U-20, men’s U-17, women’s U-17 and women’s U-15 teams will all hold camps in the coming weeks following the BMO National Championships Nutrilite All Stars.
Also in August, Canada’s Para Soccer team as well as Canada’s men’s national team will be in camp, with the latter assembling at the end of the month before what will be a busy September for Canada’s two national “A” teams.
Already in 2010, Canada has held national camps for five different youth age teams – men’s U-20, men’s U-17, women’s U-20, women’s U-18, and women’s U-17. The addition of two U-15 teams – girls in early August and boys later this year – marks seven different national youth teams in 2010.
Add in the activity for the men’s full national, men’s U-23/Olympic, women’s full national and Para-Soccer teams, that makes 11 different national soccer teams in play this 2010 season.
Following this week’s BMO National Championships Nutrilite All Stars, Canada’s men’s U-17 team will assemble in Sherbrooke under head coach Sean Fleming. The players will be selected directly from the competition and remain in Sherbrooke from 25 July to 1 August. This team is in its early preparations for the 2011 CONCACAF Men’s Under-17 Championship.
Also following the weekend, Canada’s women’s U-17 team will hold its next camp in Santiago, Chile under head coach Bryan Rosenfeld. The camp runs 25 July to 3 August. This team has already won the 2010 CONCACAF Women’s Under-17 Championship (March in Costa Rica) and is currently preparing for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup Trinidad and Tobago 2010 (September 2010).
At the end of July, Canada’s women’s U-15 team will group in Sunrise, FL, USA under coach David Benning. This camp will run 30 July to 9 August. Finally, Canada’s men’s U-20 team will meet in Spain for a camp and competition from 9-21 August. The men’s U-20 team is coached by Valerio Gazzola.
Men’s International Friendlies
In September, Canada’s men’s national team will host two Men’s International Friendly matches – 4 September against Peru in Toronto and 7 September against Honduras in Montréal. Tickets to both matches are available now (Toronto via Ticketmaster / 416.872.5000 / ticketmaster.ca; Montréal via Admission / 1.800.361.4595 / Admission.com). Canada’s women’s national team, meanwhile, will face reigning FIFA Women’s World Cup champion Germany on 15 September in Germany.
Canada’s Busy Invaluable Experience Weekend
Jason De Vos
writes and broadcasts at CBC Sports
Mixed results for Canada’s national teams
This weekend was a busy one for Canada’s various national team programs. Training camps and international friendlies took place around the world, and while the results were mixed, the experience gained was invaluable.
The men’s U-17 team took part in a tournament in Martinique, coming away with a morale-boosting, first-place finish. A 2-1 victory over the host country followed a 1-0 victory over Guadeloupe and a 3-1 victory over Martinique’s U-16 team. Canadian captain Bryce Alderson of Kitchener, Ont., was named the tournament’s most valuable player.
The men’s U-20 team took part in the 2010 Internationale Cor Groenewegen Toernooi in Groenewegen, Netherlands, where they finished 11th out of 12 teams. The tournament featured a mix of international and club teams, where each team played five matches in the group phase before taking part in a classification match on Monday afternoon.
Canada finished the group phase having lost all five matches, scoring one goal and conceding eight. Although the results were not what one would have hoped for, this type of international experience is exactly what our young players need in order to develop.
The women’s national team, meanwhile, held a 10-day training camp in Maryland, which they capped by playing the Washington Freedom of the Women’s Professional Soccer league. Despite going behind 3-1, the women battled back to tie the game 3-3 with goals from Christina Julien, Christine Sinclair and Jodi-Ann Robinson.
The women are preparing for a friendly with former World Cup winners Norway on June 3, as well as the 2010 CONCACAF Women’s Gold Cup, which serves as the qualification tournament for the FIFA Women’s World Cup being held in Germany in 2011.
Finally, the men’s national team travelled to Buenos Aires to take on powerhouse Argentina.
Canada’s Big Soccer Weekend
It will be a big weekend for Canada’s national soccer teams, leading up to the televised Canada-Argentina match this Monday May 24 on Rogers Sportsnet. Four national teams are in action this weekend – both national men’s and national women’s teams plus the men’s U-20 and men’s U-17 teams.
Canada’s men’s national team is in Buenos Aires this week in advance of its historic match against Argentina on May 24. The Monday match kicks off at 15.30 local time and will be broadcast live on Rogers Sportsnet (all four channels) at 15.30 ET / 12.30 PT. This marks the first time Canada will face the two-time FIFA World Cup champion.
The Canada-Argentina match is also pretty big news in Argentina where an expected sold-out Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti will house some 65,000 fans. The match will be played as part of the bicentenary anniversary of the Revolución de Mayo, the early 19th century “May Revolution” that helped form Argentina into an independent nation. It is also one of Argentina’s final matches before the team departs for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.
Canada’s women’s national team, meanwhile, is currently training in Gaithersburg, MD, USA. The team’s 10-day camp runs May 18-27 and includes a Sunday exhibition match against Women’s Professional Soccer team Washington Freedom. The Sunday May 23 match kicks off at 17.00 ET in Fairfax, VA. Fans can follow the match live via Twitter In English and In French.
The Canadian women are preparing for a big international fixture on June 3 in Hamar, Norway against the one-time FIFA Women’s World Cup and Women’s Olympic champion Norway. The international match is part of Canada’s preparations for the 2010 CONCACAF Women’s Gold Cup – the North American qualification route to the FIFA Women’s World Cup Germany 2011.
As for Canada’s youth teams, Canada’s men’s U-20 team is training in and around Alkmaar, Netherlands while Canada’s men’s U-17 team in training in Fort-de-France, Martinique. This weekend, Canada’s men’s U-20 team takes part in a tournament against other international and local clubs (Internationale Cor Groenewegen Toernooi). In all, Canada will play five 40-minute mini games on May 22 and 24. Canada’s men’s U-17 team, meanwhile, is taking part in an international tournament of its own, with matches against Guadeloupe on May 22 and a yet-to-be-determined opponent on May 23.
Beyond this weekend, the next major international match for Canada will be the men’s national team match against Venezuela on Saturday May 29. That match will also be broadcast on Rogers Sportsnet. The May 29 match will cap off a two-week period in which five Canadian national teams – the above four plus Canada’s women’s U-18 team – will have played 16 opponents in 14 days.
