Ottawa, Ontario has announced that they will be added to the United Soccer Leagues First Division for the 2012 season as the Ottawa Fury. The deal with the USL is however conditional that they upgrade the proposed Frank Clair Stadium at Lansdowne Park to their standards.
Organizers are also setting their sights high for the proposed team. John Pugh, who is the CEO of the Ottawa Fury has said that this is just the first step towards becoming apart of the Major Soccer League. He has also put out there that he hopes that with the creation of the team in …read more

Kirstina Kiss has announced today that she will be retiring from the Canadian Women’s National Soccer Team today. Kiss began her soccer career in Ottawa, Ontario after being a star player at the Holy Trinity High School. She was the team captain for Canada and helped her team win silver at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo and bronze in 2007 at the Pan American games in Rio de Janairo. She also represented Canada twice at the FIFA Women’s World Cup Games.
There was no reason given for her retirement, at just 28 she’s hardly over her prime. But …read more

It’s not looking too good for Canada in their attempt at playing in the 2010 South Africa FIFA World Cup games. Their ranking has been tallied by the FIFA governing body as being in 66th place. This is not at all surprising considering we are a hockey country and only have two MLS teams.
Soccer critics have blamed the Canadian Soccer Association for not giving their best players more support in the game. But I guess that’s what happens when there is no money from sponsors for the game.
The United States on the other hand has almost been able to …read more

Montreal Impact lost to Argentina’s River Plate 2-1 last night in over-time. River Plate remained undefeated on their Canadian tour. They played the Toronto FC and a game against an English clud in Edmonton so far.

It may have been raining hard in Montreal yesterday but attendance was high to near capacity at the Saputo Stadium. A large River Plate crowd was there for support as well. RP’s Christian Fabbiano managed to slip one buy in the 21st minute. But it was Montreal’s rebound in the 64 minute by Roberto Brown that got the local fans going.
Despite being a friendly game, …read more

The CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinals are being held in Philadelphia this year and it just seemed like the magic left the Canadian team. On Saturday they played against Honduras and lost 1-0. USA continued in a spectacular match that left Panama wondering what happened.
The USA will now advance to the semifinals rounds that will be held in the great city of Chicago. The crows are expected to supersede the over 30,000 fans who showed up at the Philadelphia match.
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The Montreal Impact (who are not apart of the MLS yet) played against the Syrian national soccer team on Wednesday and defeated them 2-1. Felix Brilliant managed to secure the winning goal by head butting it into the corner net.
Montreal has shown themselves to be an impressive team during the last few years. Yet they always seem to be overlooked when it comes time to add more teams to the MLS roster. They were overlooked last year when the bid when to the Vancouver Whitecaps. It was assumed that MLS officials believed Vancouver was better known internationally and had better …read more

Toronto FC have defied all odds and won the 2009 Nutrilite Canadian Championship. They were in a three point deficit behind the leading Vancouver Whitecaps, when they played the Montreal Impact last night. With this in mind Toronto managed to squeeze in 6 goals in the Montreal Impacts net making the final score 6:1.
At the beginning of the game they were hoping to at least secure a second place victory, but when things seemed to be going their way they pushed for the Championship title and winners of the 2009 Voyageurs Cup.
The Nutrilite Canadian Championship is the most prestigious soccer …read more

The Vancouver Whitecaps have much to prove as they are now preparing themselves for entry into the MLS in 2012. The Whitecaps weren’t able to thwart the Toronto FC in the first Canadian Championship games, but they did manage to beat the Montreal Impact last night.
The Montreal Impact are the reigning champions of last years Nutrilite Canadian Championship but that doesn’t seem to be working in their favour this year.
The Impact and Whitecaps faced off in Montreal in a near capacity crown of 11,483 at the Saputo Stadium. The crown were left disappointed after allowing in two goals making the …read more

It was a sad day this week for Montreal Impact fans to learn that they lost against the Toronto FC in the Nutrilite Canadian Championship. There was only one goal scored during the entire game, unfortunately it was in favour of Toronto.

Toronto also defeated the Vancouver Whitecaps on May 6 (also in a 1-0 game) during the opening Nutrilite Canadian Championships. The Toronto FC are naturally excited by their recent streak of wins and hope that they will continue to be strong in the MLS. Montreal on the other hand continued to disappoint fans by tying their following …read more

Toronto FC defeated the Vancouver Whitecaps 1-0 in the opening Nutrilite Canadian Championship games. Toronto had allot to prove as they are currently the only Canadian team in the coveted MLS. Vancouver will be joining in 2011 but the Montreal Impact will have to wait their turn.

Montreal won the Canadian Championship last year with Toronto barely defeating Vancouver for the send spot. With only three teams competing for the title that’s a huge deal. The next Nutrilite Canadian Championship game will be on May 27th in Vancouver (Whitecaps FC-Impact), June 2nd in Vancouver (Whitecaps FC-Toronto FC), and June 18th …read more