Thursday, June 12, 2008

Canada names World Cup Qualifier roster

Canadian men's soccer coach Dale Mitchell has named the 19-players he will use for their 2010 World Cup qualifying matches against Saint Vincent & the Grenadines. The Canadians are looking to reach the finals for the first time since 1986.

Here is their roster:

GK (2): Greg Sutton (Toronto FC), Pat Onstad (Houston Dynamo)

D (6): Jim Brennan (Toronto FC), Mike Klukowski(Club Brugge KV), André Hainault (Sparta Praha), Ugo Ihemelu (Colorado Rapids), Adrian Cann (Vancouver Whitecaps), Richard Hastings(Inverness CT)

M (7): Adrian Serioux (FC Dallas), Julian de Guzman (Deportivo La Coruna),Paul Stalteri (Fulham FC),Marcel de Jong (Roda JC), Issey Nakajima-Farran (FC Nordsjælland), Atiba Hutchinson (FC København), Patrice Bernier (FC Kaiserslautern)

F (4): Tomasz Radzinski (Skoda Xanthi), Dwayne De Rosario (Houston Dynamo), Ali Gerba (FC Ingolstadt), Rob Friend (Borussia Mönchengladbach)

The Canadians play in Kingston this Sunday and then head home to Montreal for the second leg next Friday (20 June).

It will be interesting to see if Toronto FC coach John Carver complains about these call ups.

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3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ugo Ihemelu, wtf???

2:09 PM  
Blogger Sean! said...

i wonder if DeRo and Pat room together.

2:24 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I watched Canada play against jamaica, Honduras, and mexico
it was very evident that the Canadian team does not have the required skills to compete , even in the World cup qualifying rounds. Canada plays a static game & repeatedly used a weak strategy of kicking the ball long, down the field hoping one lone Canadian striker would be able to do something against 2-3 defenders.
Sadly this same strategy has been used for over 2 decades by the Canadian Teams. pathetic to watch

11:17 AM  

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