Tag: Canada soccer
9 months ago
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Canada’s first women’s pro soccer league is making progress. A rousing World Cup run would help

More than seven months after Diana Matheson announced plans for an eight-team league starting in 2025, there’s still ...

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9 months ago
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Being trans wasn’t a choice for Quinn. Fighting for a better world is

The fight for rights hasn’t been easy, but the Canadian soccer star believes it’s going to lead to more acceptance.

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9 months ago
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There’s a cap on Canadian soccer success until the cheque clears

Reaction to Canada’s Nations League final loss to the U.S. might have been over the top, but the discrepancy in resou...

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10 months ago
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Canadian soccer men have a chance that doesn’t come along often

A Nations League win would give the men their first major trophy in 23 years.

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10 months ago
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Trust issues. Severe cash shortages. Internal politics. Can new general secretary Jason deVos sav...

The former player and director of development has given his life to soccer in this country; but now he faces several ...

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11 months ago
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Threatened. Humiliated. Blacklisted. Inside the culture of fear that muzzled and penalized women ...

The Star spoke to six women who say they were silenced with threats of reprisals for calling out abuse and financial ...

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about 1 year ago
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There isn’t enough money to solve Canadian soccer’s problems. Not yet

Canada Soccer is in flux, with waning revenue streams and a record of money-squandering incompetence. It’s a trap the...

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about 1 year ago
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Distrust, anger, hostility — An inside look at the Canada Soccer dispute threatening the sport’s ...

The dispute with our national teams is rooted in whether Canada Soccer is about to squander the greatest generation o...

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about 1 year ago
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Canada Soccer is failing its players again. That’s quite the tradition the organization is building

Eight months after the men’s team went on strike while preparing for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the women’s team ha...

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over 1 year ago
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Opinion | Alphonso Davies defends decision to take penalty; embraces FIFA World Cup 2022 stage

The best Canadian men’s soccer player ever is a young man who was both ready for this moment and still growing into it.

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over 1 year ago
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Opinion | Canada’s World Cup hopes end with a loss to Croatia. The opportunity was there

There was a chance for something better, but Canada missed it — by inches, by feet, by enough. It took four years to ...

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over 1 year ago
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Opinion | This is Canada’s World Cup moment. Fear Croatia? Not any more

The last four years have led to Sunday’s Group F clash in Qatar. Remarkably, a win by John Herdman’s Canadians over t...

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over 1 year ago
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Opinion | Canada’s World Cup wait is finally over and, win or lose, the games will be something t...

Men’s soccer has been an embarrassment in this country for so long, Bruce Arthur writes, but this group will seek to ...

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over 1 year ago
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Opinion | How John Herdman found peace on Canada’s World Cup journey

Canada’s coach, shaped by hardship, was determined to feel this World Cup run — “real emotions” — whatever it takes. ...

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over 1 year ago
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Opinion | Alphonso Davies and Canada’s World Cup soccer team dodge a bullet. The road to Qatar ha...

Davies’s hamstring injury — the same day Canada lost backup ’keeper Maxime Crepeau with a broken leg — won’t keep him...

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over 1 year ago
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Opinion | After the high of World Cup qualification, Canadian coach John Herdman breaks down the ...

With two friendlies on tap in the coming days, Herdman is honest to the point where it’s almost like he is setting th...

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almost 2 years ago
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Opinion | The victory for the Canadian men’s soccer team, after ‘a tough week,’ was in playing th...

The focus has been on everything but the game. Head coach John Herdman has to hope the team’s hard work doesn’t slip ...

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almost 2 years ago
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Opinion | Equality is the answer to the Canadian soccer mess, but it’s no done deal

After a sequence of recent events that turned Canadian men’s soccer into a punchline, coach John Herdman met with the...

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almost 2 years ago
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A step onto a practice field is just the first step to ending Canadian soccer dispute

“Questions have yet to be answered, and actions have yet to be taken,” men’s team says of its dispute with Canada Soc...

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almost 2 years ago
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Opinion | Men’s national team stays off the field after rejecting Canada Soccer pitch

The off-again, on-again Vancouver friendly is put at risk as players, organization fight over World Cup money.

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almost 2 years ago
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Opinion | Canada’s cancelled soccer date with Iran was a mistake from the start, and an embarrass...

Every country has its sins, past and present. But Iran was responsible for the murder of Canadians just two years ago...

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almost 2 years ago
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Analysis | The golden age of Canadian soccer could be a gold mine in the right hands

Operating Canada Soccer more like a sports franchise rather than a typical national organization would require a dram...

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almost 2 years ago
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Atiba Hutchinson and Milan Borjan are a team within a team. Canada’s World Cup breakthrough was w...

The most experienced players on the Canadian men’s soccer team, rejuvenated by the next generation, just kept pushing...

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almost 2 years ago
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Belief in Canadian men’s national team built on special moments throughout World Cup qualifying j...

In the last two years in particular, there have been key moments along the way that have instilled in Canada and its ...

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almost 2 years ago
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Canada still has plenty to play for in final men’s qualifying match against Panama

The Canadian men’s national soccer team has a chance to clinch first place in the region, while a win could also land...

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about 2 years ago
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Teammates rally around Kaye after red card in Canada’s loss at World Cup soccer qualifier

To say the Costa Rican player embellished the contact from Mark-Anthony would be an understatement, but it was, at be...

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about 2 years ago
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For the first time in decades, Canadian soccer gives Costa Rica reason to fear, with World Cup be...

Canada is on the brink of the biggest night in its soccer history, with its destiny in its own hands

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about 2 years ago
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On the verge of a World Cup berth, Canada faces a hostile environment in Costa Rica

Canadians can qualify for the world tourney on Thursday, but first they’ll have to go up against a squad at the top o...

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about 2 years ago
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The road ahead for Canada and the 2026 men’s soccer World Cup

While Toronto is considered a lock to host games, the official announcement isn’t expected until April.

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about 2 years ago
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Arnold Clark Cup doubles as audition for Canadian women’s soccer hopefuls

The need for change is an opportunity for Tanya Boychuk, Devon Kerr and Marie-Yasmine Alidou D’Anjou, in camp for the...

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about 2 years ago
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Analysis | Do Canadians have an advantage in the cold? The national men’s soccer team hopes so

The Canadians, on the brink of a World Cup berth, will host the U.S. in Hamilton in sub-zero conditions Sunday. Exper...

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about 2 years ago
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Analysis | Canada-U.S. soccer rivalry is good for the game, now and down the road

Sunday’s men’s World Cup qualifier in Hamilton is one of the most anticipated soccer matches north of the border in a...

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about 3 years ago
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The Canadian women’s soccer team starts fresher for first international test of 2021

Twenty-nine players will travel to Orlando next month for two weeks of preparation before the four-team SheBelieves C...

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