For the masochists in the group: The two upcoming friendlies will be televised on Sportsnet One:
Friday, November 15th, 0900 MT, vs. Czech Republic
Tuesday, November 19th, 1000 MT, vs. Solvenia
So set your PVRs! I'll watch, of course, and hopefully there will be a slight glimmer of hope that can be taken from these matches. They'll be in tough against the Czechs, for sure, and even the Slovenes should be considered the favourite by a fair margin.
Question? Has canada ever produced a top talent that was capped by the Canadian MNT? Im talking ever.
This depresses me...
Depends on your definition of top talent. Would you consider Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey or Tim Howard top talent? If not then the United States hasn't either.
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Here is the starting lineup for this morning's game against the Czechs. They will field a more experienced lineup for this game, and experiment with the Slovenia game on Tuesday.
Both games are on Sportsnet One, if anyone feels like watching.
Canada Soccer@CanadaSoccerEN13m #canMNT starting XI: Hirschfeld (GK), Ledgerwood, Hainault, Henry, De Jong, Straith, Ricketts, Osorio, Pacheco, Jackson, De Rosario (C).
Fair enough! I would imagine that if someone is PVR'ing it, they'd probably have the common sense to stay out of this thread.
Canada had a bit of a resurgence after a horrid start, but they'll need a lot more than that. Cech is great keeper, but I feel that the penalty could have been taken better. Clear penalty though. De Ro had his legs swept out. In fairness to the Czech defender, the pitch does seem a bit slippery today with a few guys wiping out.
Dobson just said that Canada's goalless drought is now up to 799 minutes. That's quite pathetic.
Depends on your definition of top talent. Would you consider Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey or Tim Howard top talent? If not then the United States hasn't either.
I dodnt mean it as an insult. I was just curious.
Id say top talent means an upper eachelon player in one of the 4 big leagues.
I just finished watching this game last night. Even though they Czechs obviously weren't going full out, I thought we played a bit better, but still really struggled to create anything. We had 2 chances and that was it. No one moves off the ball. Very few players on this team can beat anyone 1v1 to open things up. I just get a little depressed watching these things lately. All the hope I had that we were moving forward as a national program is lost at the moment.
I'm half-assedly watching/listening to the match while away for work, but it sounds like Canada is doing alright early on this morning. De Ro had one heck of a strike that was saved superbly. Really should have been 1-0.
Depends on your definition of top talent. Would you consider Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey or Tim Howard top talent? If not then the United States hasn't either.
The US have produced top talent it's not even compatible to Canada.
africa has a few just on physical strength but I think they are overrated. The team play of african teams is awful.
While I think the chances of African teams doing well are overstated, or the teams underperform, they have had some top, top players. Eto'o and Toure aren't half bad.
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The US have produced top talent it's not even compatible to Canada.
While they have produce players that are better than what Canada has, I wouldn't say they are top, top players or even top players. Although he didn't play for Canada, Hargreaves was a product, or an anomaly, of our system and I don't think any American-born players have enjoyed his success.
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While I think the chances of African teams doing well are overstated, or the teams underperform, they have had some top, top players. Eto'o and Toure aren't half bad.
While they have produce players that are better than what Canada has, I wouldn't say they are top, top players or even top players. Although he didn't play for Canada, Hargreaves was a product, or an anomaly, of our system and I don't think any American-born players have enjoyed his success.
Claudio Reyna, Tim Howard, Brad Friedel and it looks like Michael Bradley could have a Serie A medal this year. All class players. Hargreaves is English and I wouldn't rate him as being better than any of the players I've mentioned. He was lucky to be part of squads that were successful
