Frank Yallop, coach of the brilliantly successful early 2000s’ San Jose Earthquakes featuring Jeff Agoos, Landon Donovan, Dwayne De Rosario & Co., knows the USA-Canada rivalry like few others. Yallop made his Canadian national team debut against the USA in 1990, earned 52 caps, and played in 26 World Cup qualifying games. He coached Canada in […]
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'DeRo: My Life.' A well-crafted memoir with lively MLS history
BOOK REVIEW: DeRo: My Life by Dwayne De Rosario with Brendan Dunlop * * * * * * * * * * “He reached into his school bag and pulled out a gun.” That’s the second sentence of the book’s prologue. It’s a scary scene among young teens – the injury and impact of which […]
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Dane Kenneth Heiner-Moller leaves before chance to take Canada women to Olympics
Kenneth Heiner-Moller, who coached Canada at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, is leaving his post this summer to return to take a job in his native Denmark with the Danish Football Association asits head of coaching education. Heiner-Moller, who will leave at the end of August, was an assistant under John Herdman when Canada won […]
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Der Klassiker: Bayern Road Runner puts on a show
Bayern Munich moved closer to clinching its seventh straightBundesliga title when it beat second-place Borussia Dortmund, 1-0, on the road to open up a seven-point lead with six games to play. Career goal. A moment of brilliance from midfielder Joshua Kimmich was the difference as he caught Dortmund keeper Roman Buerki off his line — […]
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What They're Saying: Karina LeBlanc
“As athletes we know the worst thing is having a bad game, as a goalie messing up a goal, but one of the things I came to realize was that it was just a game, and this is life and death. Onceyou give birth to a child, you fall in love in a way you […]
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What They're Saying: John Herdman
“I think whatever is happening south of the border is their business it’s for them to deal with. I’ve been pretty clear internally here with the players we have. We want to be drivenby internal things like getting better every camp we come in, and that getting better takes us all to a place we […]
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What They're Saying: Greg Vanney
“It would be interesting to have a champion not be in Champions League. For us as a club, we’d like to have more than just one way to get in, but that’s where it’s at for now.Our job is to try to go win the championship this weekend and figure all that out later.” — […]
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USA-Canada: Canadians look to turn the tables
As the Canada women’s national team coach,Englishman John Herdman faced the USA 11 times and never won. He’ll get his first chance to beat the USA as Canada’s men’s national team coach Tuesday night when Canada and the USAmeet in the Concacaf Nations League at Toronto’s BMO Field. USA-Canada: Five games that define the men’s […]
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What They're Saying: John Herdman
“For us it’s a cup final. This is the game we have been waiting for, for 10-15 years. We want their best. We want the challenge. We want Alphonso Davies, Jonathan David tested atthat level. Its our house and we have to make sure they feel that.” — Canada national team coach John Herdman, on […]
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What They're Saying: Marc Dos Santos
“If he continues working like that, he can have a very good career. It’s important that we say why, why did he get to that? We live in a microwave society. The fans they want things now. Theplayers want things now. Me I prefer the pizza in the oven — that seven-minute pizza sucks. Even […]