Zidane Wraps Up Charity Match In Canada
July 13, 2009 by Jyle Dupuis
Filed under Soccer Stars
Zinedine Zidane has been in Canada for the past few weeks now traveling from Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. His charity matches helped raise money for UNICEF and other causes.
His match in Montreal drew the largest crowd of over 15,000 people with Toronto trailing at 10,000 and ended with Vancouver in a shameful 4,000. The match in Vancouver however was a tough one as Zidane was forced to recover from an injury he sustained at the Canada fireworks display. Zidane decided to postpone the game that was played yesterday, however none of the other international soccer stars Zidane toured with showed …read more
Vancouver Sells Out 2011 Season Tickets!
March 27, 2009 by Jyle Dupuis
Filed under N. America - Major League, News
The Vancouver Whitecaps may still be two years away from beginning a season with the MLS, but they have already managed to sell out all 5,000 available season tickets.
Officials of the MLS announced last week that the bid to have the Vancouver Whitecaps added to the league was approved. Since then, Vancouverites and soccer fans throughout Canada have been celebrating the addition of the country’s second MLS team.
Vancouver is an ideal location for a MLS soccer team. They are a new green-energy efficient city with state of the art venues (facilitated by the 2010 Winter Olympic Games), and they have …read more
