http://www.cansoc.org/ This is a discussion forum powered by vBulletin. To find out about vBulletin, go to http://www.vbulletin.com/ . en Fri, 18 May 2012 17:38:53 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.cansoc.org/images/misc/rss.png http://www.cansoc.org/ http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44197-Best-Canadian-Player-Currently-Playing&goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 16:28:36 GMT Of all the players currently playing who could play for Canada OR could have played for Canada, who do you feel is the overall "best". ]]> The Beaver http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44197-Best-Canadian-Player-Currently-Playing http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44196-Canadians-abroad-May-18-24-2012&goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 14:06:08 GMT *Guidelines for this thread* * In this thread post match updates on all Canadians abroad for May 18-24, 2012. * If you find updates posted in... Guidelines for this thread

• In this thread post match updates on all Canadians abroad for May 18-24, 2012.
  
  
• If you find updates posted in some other thread or on the other Voyageurs forum then post them here as well, but be sure to credit the original poster.
  
  
• If there is news that is particularly significant (eg. someone scores a big goal, someone gets injured, etc.) then feel free to begin a new thread on that topic in order to draw greater attention or start a discussion, but also post that news here.
  
  
• Some comments on news posted in this thread are okay, but let's not let this thread go off into a long discussion. If the news already appears in another thread (as per the previous bullet) then post your comments in that other thread, otherwise if you want to say something significant or if it is likely to generate replies then begin a new thread.

]]> DJT http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44196-Canadians-abroad-May-18-24-2012 http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44194-Attendance-predictions-for-Canada-s-world-cup-qualifying-campaign&goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 05:33:36 GMT Anyone know where were at attendance wise right now? I just bought 7 tickets for the first two games last night. I'm bringing a bunch of my footy buddies out so it should be a good time. Has the CSA given any indication of sales though? I truly don't
understand why these games aren't selling out. The product is much better than TFC and theres going to be some exciting competition. I think the CMNT could be really popular one day, I just think they need to accomplish something to make people start to take notice ]]> Nick http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44194-Attendance-predictions-for-Canada-s-world-cup-qualifying-campaign http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44193-UPLOADING-Games-amp-OnLine-Stream&goto=newpost Fri, 18 May 2012 01:51:16 GMT Many of us on the forum would like to download a game or two. But in order to do that some of us need to Upload Games. Until recently I used... Many of us on the forum would like to download a game or two. But in order to do that some of us need to Upload Games. Until recently I used MegaUpload. But they got shut down by the US. Now here are a few websites where one can UPLOAD games to:


http://www.filefactory.com (FREE 2Gb File Limit)

http://freakshare.com/ (FREE 1Gb File Limit)

http://turbobit.net/ (FREE, 200mb File Limit)

http://bitshare.com/ (FREE, 1Gb File Limit)


As for Online Stream I usually stick to a Specific Website:

http://atdhe.eu/


Hope it helps Everyone ]]> orletafc http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44193-UPLOADING-Games-amp-OnLine-Stream http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44189-US-16-man-camp-roster&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 22:37:39 GMT Brad Guzan (Aston villa) Tim Howard (everton) Nick rimando (real salt lake) Carlos bocangera (rangers) Edgar Castillo (club Tijuana) Steve... Brad Guzan (Aston villa)
Tim Howard (everton)
Nick rimando (real salt lake)

Carlos bocangera (rangers)
Edgar Castillo (club Tijuana)
Steve cherundulo (Hannover)
Alfredo morales (hertha Berlin)

Beckerman (rsl)
Bradley (Chievo Verona)
Joe corona (club Tijuana)
Maurice edu (rangers)
Fabian Johnson (hoffenheim)
Jermaine jones (schalke 04)
Jose Torres (pachuca)
Danny Williams (hoffenheim)

Clint Dempsey (fulham)


They will add more mls guys once the short break starts. ]]> Alex http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44189-US-16-man-camp-roster http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44188-Boy-9-stands-up-to-God-hates-fags-protesters&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 22:12:21 GMT Sigh...if only the CMNT had this kid's conviction and balls

Boy, 9, stands up to 'God hates fags' protesters
By QMI Agency


Josef Miles, 9, countered signs by Westboro Baptist Church demonstrators with his own, reading "God hates no one," on the campus of Washburn University in Topeka, Kan., May 12, 2012. (photo via Patty Akrouche/Facebook)

Out of the mouth of babes...

A nine-year-old Kansas boy had some words for the anti-gay protesters of the Westboro Baptist Church over the weekend.

The church is known for showing up at high-profile events — usually ones that have nothing to do with homosexuality — and demonstrate with signs reading "God hates fags."

Josef Miles, 9, was with his mother on the campus of Washburn University in Topeka, Kan., when he spotted some of Westboro's followers.

Miles took a notepad and wrote in capital letters "God hates no one," and held up the sign in the path of the protesters.

"I have never been prouder," mom Patty Akrouche wrote on Facebook, where she posted photos of her son's one-man march.

Akrouche, who describes her religious views as "Christianity" on her Facebook page, further wrote, "Those people are scary, but he stood strong, was respectful and stood by his convictions. He will be a good man, I have no doubt." ]]> General Off-Topic Discussion Joe MacCarthy http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44188-Boy-9-stands-up-to-God-hates-fags-protesters http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44187-Whitecaps-Women-Home-Opener-in-Langley-Thursday-May-17th-Mcleod-Athletic-Park&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 21:20:54 GMT "After a surprising defeat on the road at Victoria Highlanders FC to open the season, Vancouver Whitecaps FC are excited to kick off the home portion of their W-League schedule with a match against Western Conference rivals Colorado Rush at McLeod Athletic Park in Langley on Friday - hosted by Langley United Youth Soccer Association. Kickoff is at 7:30 p.m. PT.

Whitecaps FC went 1W-1D-0L against the Rush last season, winning 3-0 on May 27 in Chilliwack and drawing 0-0 on June 19 in Denver. Against teams from Denver, Vancouver are 15W-1L-6D all-time and 10W-0L-1D at home."


http://www.whitecapsfc.com/news/2012...ic-park-friday

Hopefully its a good game, will be nice to watch some regular season football in Langley. ]]> TheKottonmouthed http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44187-Whitecaps-Women-Home-Opener-in-Langley-Thursday-May-17th-Mcleod-Athletic-Park http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44186-CHL-Model&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 16:31:06 GMT I would love to see us have a soccer league with the same model as the CHL. Why don't we?
Is this something the CSA has even looked into, and if so, what were the stumbling blocks? Is implementing a league in this model something that may be on Victor Montagliani's agenda? ]]> Saugan http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44186-CHL-Model http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44185-Why-is-this-news-for-BBC&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 15:52:44 GMT Hey this continent is going to be beige someday... get over it. Any White Supremacist sponsors at BBC?... Hey this continent is going to be beige someday... get over it.
Any White Supremacist sponsors at BBC?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18100457 ]]> General Off-Topic Discussion argh1 http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44185-Why-is-this-news-for-BBC http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44184-Hello&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 15:26:44 GMT Hi all, New to this forum here but have been going to National team games since varsity stadium (can remember watching Canada – Iran, Costa Rica,... Hi all,

New to this forum here but have been going to National team games since varsity stadium (can remember watching Canada – Iran, Costa Rica, etc.) and am pretty excited about the upcoming slate of qualifiers. So first off, thanks for setting up the south end at BMO and doing the tickets for those games (just received mine in the mail last night) – much appreciated.

Real question I have though – Friday June 8th is our first qualifier at Cuba – I see a group of you is heading to Cuba which will be great but for those of us still in Toronto – any bars / pubs that you frequent for the WCQ games? Scallywags, football factory, etc.? Fine with going wherever - just don’t want to miss out.

Thanks all

Mike ]]> Introductions mchesher http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44184-Hello http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44183-Voyageurs-Table-at-Hall-of-Fame-Banquet&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 14:45:47 GMT We are getting a table at the hall of fame banquet for the 100th anniversary of the CSA.

I have a few spots left, it's $150 per person and includes a ticket to the USA game.

Everyone's going to be there. Player wise it sounds pretty amazing.

Let me know asap.

June 2nd Royal York Hotel

Thanks,
Jamie ]]> socceronly http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44183-Voyageurs-Table-at-Hall-of-Fame-Banquet http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44182-CMNT-World-Cup-Qualifying-Camp-Roster&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 14:14:08 GMT Here it is folks... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m98lk2I4Tss GK - Hirschfeld GK - Borjan GK - Stama DF - Ledgerwood DF - Klukowski Here it is folks...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m98lk2I4Tss

GK - Hirschfeld
GK - Borjan
GK - Stama

DF - Ledgerwood
DF - Klukowski
DF - McKenna
DF - Hainault
DF - Edgar
DF - Morgan
DF - Jazic

MF - JDG1
MF - Johnson
MF - Simpson
MF - Hutchinson
MF - Pacheco
MF - Piette
MF - Nakajima-Farran

FW - Hume
FW - Ricketts
FW - Jackson
FW - DeRo
FW - Occean ]]> ThiKu http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44182-CMNT-World-Cup-Qualifying-Camp-Roster http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44181-Men-s-Roster&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 14:13:37 GMT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m98lk...ature=youtu.be ]]> An Old Fullback http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44181-Men-s-Roster http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44179-Canadian-Women-s-Soccer-Team-Fitter-Than-Ever&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 00:33:10 GMT Some interesting comments also about what happened at the WWC - JM

Canadian Women's Soccer Team Fitter Than Ever
The Canadian Press May 10, 2012

If Christine Sinclair isn't running hard enough or long enough, or her heart rate drops below the optimal level, Cesar Meylan knows about it.

Like soccer's version of Big Brother, Meylan is constantly monitoring Canada's women's soccer captain and her teammates, meticulously gathering data and drawing up training programs.

It's all part of Canada's quest for Olympic glory, and Sinclair is already loving the results.

"Absolutely, I'm in the best shape of my life. Without a doubt," said Sinclair, looking undeniably lean on a recent trip to Toronto.

Meylan is a sport scientist with the women's team, following head coach John Herdman from New Zealand's women's squad to Canada when he was hired last September.

The two believe in a scientific approach to training, and what the stats showed them a few months ago is that the Canadians weren't as fit as they needed to be to keep pace with the top teams in the world.

FIFA, the world's governing body for soccer, used a soccer analysis program called Prozone to study every player in every game at last summer's women's World Cup in Germany. The results showed Canada — which was ousted in the opening round — was the seventh fittest squad in the tournament.

That wasn't good enough for Herdman.

"(Herdman) expects us to be the fittest team leading into London, so in the span of less than a year, we've changed a lot," Sinclair said, in Toronto on a promotional tour for sponsor Tide detergent.

The team is based in Vancouver, housed in furnished downtown apartments. Training camp is scheduled in three-week blocks with a week away in-between to train at home. The Canadians spent several months leading up to the World Cup in Rome with former coach Carolina Morace — an experience Sinclair wouldn't want to repeat.

"We have a great group, but even with your best friends, you need to get away from them, and in Rome there was none of that," Sinclair said. "I think a big thing (at the World Cup) was players were ready to go home. You had people counting down the days until they could go home and that is not what your mindset should be at a World Cup or an Olympics.

"We had some people who hadn't been home since Christmas, and the World Cup was in July. Obviously athletes are trained to train hard and push through barriers, but we still need some sort of balance in our lives."

The 28-year-old Sinclair, Canada's leader in career goals with 133, admitted the past few months have been some of the toughest of her career.

"John has us working pretty hard, a lot of double days, a lot of lifting, a lot of running," said Sinclair.

Saturdays are the real gut-wrenching days. The team is in the weight room at the Olympic Oval in Richmond, B.C., at 7:30 a.m. for two hours of lifting. They're back in the afternoon for a gruelling cardio workout of indoor soccer. Split into two groups, they play six four-minute mini games during which they have to keep their heart rate at 90 per cent of their maximum. While one group is playing, the other is running around the track.

"It's doable. . . but we have Sundays off to recover," Sinclair said laughing. "No one has thrown up yet, but it's entertaining, just to see how different people deal with exhaustion. Some people get really mad, others just give up."

The players wear heart-rate monitors plus GPS units that tuck into pockets in the back of their sports bras, which allow Meylan to keep tabs on how hard they're working.

"It sends signals to a satellite so you can measure the speed at which the player is travelling, how many sprints they're doing, how many high-intensity runs they're doing," Meylan said. "You can measure how many accelerations they do forward, how many times they decelerate, they go sideways, up and down. . .

"You can pretty much have unlimited data on all their activity on the field."

Meylan puts the players through a battery of tests every two months or so, and said the players have improved on average about 3.5 per cent since increasing their workload following the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament in January.

"It's a huge improvement, especially for players who were already at a decent level," Meylan said.

Playing time is the other major indicator of fitness, said the Swiss sports scientist. Herdman had to manage minutes by rotating players through matches at the Pan Am Games last October and the CONCACAF qualifier in Vancouver.

"We don't have to do that anymore," Meylan said. "And they don't carry as many chronic injuries."

The Canadians are also using the Prozone program to study the teams they'll face in opening round of the Olympics. Canada is in a pool with World Cup champion Japan, plus Sweden and South Africa, and has already gathered data to be analyzed on all three.

Prozone is used by the top European pro teams, plus some of the bigger U.S. university programs, to break down everything that goes on during a game. In its analysis of the women's World Cup, FIFA gathered data on everything from which team ran the most overall, to which team showed the biggest drop-off from the first half to the second, and how many runs the top players made.

"My job now is to then look at the activity profile (of Canada's three opening-round opponents in London)," Meylan said. "What runs they're making, where do they tend to be running on the field, at what intensity, et cetera."

No. 7 Canada opens the Olympic tournament versus third-ranked Japan on July 25 at Coventry's Ricoh Arena, two days before the opening ceremonies. The Canadians will face South Africa (No. 65) on July 28 in Coventry, then wrap up the preliminary round versus No. 5 Sweden at Newcastle on July 31. ]]> Joe MacCarthy http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44179-Canadian-Women-s-Soccer-Team-Fitter-Than-Ever http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44178-Voyageurs-Cup-FINAL-1st-Leg-(R)-16-05-2012.......and-OnLine-STREAM&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 00:22:00 GMT This is it The FINAL 1st Leg. The game will start on TV Sportsnet ONE @ 7pm with a show Preview 630pm PACIFIC STANDARD TIME for those Without the... This is it The FINAL 1st Leg. The game will start on TV Sportsnet ONE @ 7pm with a show Preview 630pm PACIFIC STANDARD TIME

for those Without the channel here is an online Stream:

http://atdhenet.tv/


I predict a quite Open game with both side going at it. Vancouver 2 - Toronto 1.........and Rmbr we play on aggregate

I also somehow have a feeling there might be an penalty somewhere are some players might be tense.

Now who will be the Starting Goalie for Whitecaps? ]]> Voyageurs Cup / CONCACAF Champions League orletafc http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?44178-Voyageurs-Cup-FINAL-1st-Leg-(R)-16-05-2012.......and-OnLine-STREAM