Today's News,Friday,Nov.18
just saw a breaking news flash at CBC that Dero won MVP
Whitecaps sign young Canadian phenom
Bryce Alderson a former U-17 player of year
The Vancouver Whitecaps are thankful 17-year-old Canadian midfielder Bryce Alderson grew up in Kitchener, Ont. - about two miles outside the territorial zone controlled by Toronto FC. Otherwise, the Caps would have had to trade for his rights.
The club announced Thursday the 2010 Canadian U-17 Player of the Year - who joined the Whitecaps residency program last year - has signed a Major League Soccer contract to be part of the team's 30-man MLS roster next season.
Alderson's contract makes him a homegrown Generation adidas player, the same status as 18-year-old Caps midfielder Russell Teibert.
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Whitecaps+sign+young+Canadian+phenom/5731710/story.html
This is the first I've read that TFC doesn't have rights over all of Ontario.
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wow 2016 and things are looking up --- come on you reds lets go
thats a bit of a worry isnt it, just means those scouts gotta work harder and look further, im sure the academy and location of the academy will bring in more kids from the golden horseshoe in the futureOriginally Posted by Oldtimer
Personally, I find it funny that someone like teibert who flies the coop to play for VWCF ends up on the bench playing spot minutes as a substitute despite their club being terrible.
Good on whitecaps for signing these prospects, but they've yet to show the willingness to use the players they've signed the way TFC has. Lesson to kids who want to drink the blue cool-aid on their development system.
Big congrats to DeRo.
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Congrats to DeRo for sure... Good for him
If it's in sportsnet, that means it's news right?
Home sweet home?
Based on these 3 Canada games, should Toronto become a permanent home for the CMNT?
what the journalist doesn't say is that Canada was playing teams that really don't matter and Canada should really be embarrased to have to play at all, even with Canada's limited football resources. If the game really isn't a foregone conclusion and it matters then a lot more people will come out.
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the 'journalist' thanks. was me, should have said. anyway...
hopefully that is what will happen. after the st lucia game I'd have been fully on board with that, but it all just seemed to lose momentum a bit after that, as if the casual crowd got a bit bored of canada games, and the dedicated hardcore got a bit weary of trying to presuade them, I know I did, my efforts to get friends out for the november game weren't particualrly strong.
I get a similar feeling to tfc games, people got tired of the v-cup and ccl games, and crowds were small, despite an enthusisastic hardcore. then the pumas home game, absolutely crucial, in no way a foregone conclusion, didn't bring people back. I'm not convinced bigger games would bring people back for this either, I think the jamaica game back in 08 was probably a large part down to the tfc honeymoon, even then I'd say the canadians in the crowd were probably at about 10-12,000 or so.
Give us one game, and hopefully it'll be a big enough event to draw the casuals, but I'm not all that convinced that it'd be the big draw needed to give Canada a proper home crowd.
Congrats to DeRo!
I hope you're right.
I think that the biggest fact for low attendance for Toronto's v-cup and ccl was people tired of 4 years of disappointment and all that De Ro stuff stc. Actually with all that baggage I think TFC did fairly respecfully in terms of attendance. For Canada - really playing the likes of St. Kitts isn't going to draw many, anywhere in the world.
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
Roy Keane
^That's fine I'm just having a blast watching the team get to be even with their support. I think one could agree that this demotion of Canada has added the great advantage of seeing more of them and seeing them win. Many people chide the level of the team looking at the participation numbers of the sport here. I'd point to the only recent exponential growth in the professional Canadians playing and the support itself.
Let's consider- If the team doesn't deserve support at present where were the numbers to see them when they were winning?*
*Not a callout to those beauties that got out to see them in '86 and 2000. It's for the ones who didn't. Like myself.
Last edited by Fort York Redcoat; 11-18-2011 at 02:46 PM.
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Seeing as this is the only place we can discuss the De Rosario MVP award, I just want to say it was well deserved.
"MVP is voted on by players, coaches, GMs and media members."
Good on him.
The word on the street is that CSA would like to play 3rd round WCQ in 3 out this 4 cities:Victoria BC,Moncton NB,Toronto and Kingston ON.
I would play Honduras in Moncton,Cuba in Toronto and Panama in Victoria.
^Why D? I want Panama here for Gold Cup revenge!
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Interesting. don't know what the stadiums are like there.
I'd love if we had a small intimidating, stands right against the pitch type stadium, like real esteli's, best stadium we played in in ccl this year. maybe about 10,000 capacity, that'd be ideal for now.
wow. that's just bat shit crazy to NOT have the tri city area on TFC's part
Congrats to DeRo on MVP - Tough season for him to win this award.
Now gotta decide how to cheer him and jeer him next visit in Season VI!
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