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This game will be very interesting considering both team do not have a technical director and Jamaica has not defeated Canada at any level in the past 10 years.
Hopefully Boxjuice and crew has purchased enough towels, hired a good bus driver with a map of Montreal and finalized the match fees before naming the squad. The interim/new TD will only have two weeks to name his squad with no local training camp for the past month. The JFF should use the CAC Games squad with at least 6 experienced senior players to roundout the squad.
Sorry,Jamatl, but can't agree with you on the composition of the team.Rebuiling Reggae Boyz football psyche which should be a critical part of object of turning aroud our football at this point cannot be entrusted to the losing CAC team.We need seasoned, tough, never-say-die, resilient players at this time with a minor blend of potentialy good young players.We must discard the philosophy of using international games as a means of displaying young, mostly non-talented players auditioning for international contracts.We need to have proven players to shoulder the immense load of turning around our football fortunes.The team,given the injuries to Gardner, Fuller and Davis should be:
Sawyers(goal)
Shavar Thomas, Marshall, Stewart, Reid(instead of Gardner)
Rodulph Austin, Khari Stephenson
Jason Euell Andy Williams(cap't)
Marlon King,Teofore Bennett or Shelton instead of Fuller.
Akeem Preistley shoud be given a short run in midfield.
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My reasoning for using the CAC Games squad especially the local based players is that our seasoned professionals are fighing for first team spots in the UK and Europe. Essentially we have the Caribbean and North American based players available for selection.
This is a chance for Reid, Thomas, Daley and some of our U23 players to grow internationally
FYI, Akeem most likely will not be available due to NCAA commitments.
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I can see the travel problems right now, Boxhill credit card get decline because him figet to pay him bill from Germany, so him a beg Marshall and Williams since dem is big ballas to pay fe to hotel rooms in Montreal. Also since it is a heavy travel weekend and dem still no buy tickets, half de team muss flag a bus when de reach Toronto to arrive in Montreal the morning of the match. Since dem caan tek powder or wata on de plane, man have run a Miss Chin at halftime and beg two juice. All dis while Boxhill a fly first-class with a stop-off in New York at the Waldorf Astoria for a meeting with CONCACAF powers fe beg money.
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<-- View Past Headlines --> Hart Announces Roster for Labour Day Friendly against Jamaica in Montreal Canada and China even again Canada falls 3-0 to Jamaica at the Caribbean Cup Robinson Scores Twice As Canada Downs Finland 2:0 at FIFA World Championships Canada draws China in St. John's Juniors Defeat Presidents XI Team 7:0 At Caribbean Cup Packages for the FIFA U-20 World Cup Canada 2007 in Montreal are on sale! Canada Defeats El Salvador 2-1 At Caribbean Cup Nigeria Spoils Canada’s World Championship Opener Canada Downs Bermuda 10-0 at Caribbean Cup High times for Ticos and Antilles Moretto to Join the CSA Pellerud annouces roster for China series Canada Defeats Australia 3-0 in Last Friendly Prior to World Championship Summer Fun For The Kids! <-- View Archives --> Men's National Team Wednesday, August 23, 2006 Hart Announces Roster for Labour Day Friendly against Jamaica in Montreal
Stephen Hart Ottawa, Ontario – Interim Canadian National Team head coach Stephen Hart has announced his 18-player roster for the Jamaica friendly on Monday, September 4 (Labour Day) at 4:00 p.m. in Montreal at the Complexe sportif Claude-Robillard.
The match marks the team’s first appearance in Montreal in over 11 years; the last being a 3:0 loss to Turkey on June 7, 1995.
This will be Hart’s first match in charge of the Canadian National Team since being named interim head coach on July 12, 2006. Hart has been Canada’s Under-17 head coach since December 2001.
Hart’s roster definitely has a Montreal connection as six players are either from the area or are current or past players of the Montreal Impact of the United Soccer League (USL). Current Impact players are goalkeeper Greg Sutton, and defenders Adam Braz, and Gabriel Gervais. Past Impact players are Patrice Bernier who is currently with Tromso in Norway and Sandro Grande playing with Molde also of Norway; both are from Montreal. Forward Olivier Occean, also a native of Montreal, was named 2006 player of the year in Norway while playing for Lillestrom.
Goalkeeper Kenny Stamatopolus (Tromso) will join Sutton on the roster.
Hart has called upon defenders Kevin McKenna (Energie Cottbus, Germany), Chris Pozniak (Haugesund, Norway), Marco Reda (Sogndal, Norway), Paul Stalteri (Tottenham, England), and Josh Simpson (Kaiserslauten, Germany) to join Braz and Gervais on the back line.
Rounding out the midfielders on the roster is Jim Brennan (unattached) who scored the first and eventual winning goal in the 2:0 win over Austria, Julian de Guzman (Deportivo La Coruna, Spain), Iain Hume (Leicester City, England), and Atiba Hutchinson (Copenhagen, Denmark).
Joining Occean up front are strikers Rob Friend (Heerenveen, Holland) and Tomasz Radzinski (Fulham, England).
Canada is currently undefeated since a very respectable 2-1 loss to Spain on September 3rd, 2005. They have not allowed a goal in their last three friendlies since November 16, 2005 with a 1:0 win over Luxembourg, a 0:0 draw with the United States on January 22nd, 2006 in San Diego, California, and most recently a 2:0 win over Austria on March 1st, 2006 in Vienna, Austria.
Against Jamaica, Canada’s is even after 11 encounters with five wins, five losses, and one draw, but the Canucks lead in goals 14-6. In their last encounter on September 2, 1999 in Toronto, Canada won the friendly 1-0.
“I think everyone is looking forward to this game,” said Hart “There has not been a senior national team men’s game in Montreal for many years and that just adds to the anticipation.”
Tickets are priced at $25.00 for the Grandstand seats (Reserved) and $15.00 for the Bleacher and End zones seats (General Admission) plus applicable taxes and are available through Admission at (514) 790-1245 or 1-800-361-4595, online at www.admission.com, or by calling the Montreal Impact ticket office at (514) 328-3668.
The Quebec Soccer Federation and its members are able to purchase General Admission tickets at a special rate of $10.00 by contacting the Quebec Soccer Federation at (450) 975-3355 ext. 3908.
Prior to the match, the squad will assemble in Ottawa for a three day training camp from August 29-31 prior to departing for Montreal where they will make their final preparations.
Joining Hart is Tony Fonseca as Assistant Coach, he is the Technical Director of the Vancouver Whitecaps and former Whitecaps head coach. He played for Benfica and was capped for Portugal.
Following the Labour Day clash, both teams will meat again in Kingston, Jamaica for a second match scheduled for October 8th.
An international friendly is currently being planned for in the fall of 2006 in Europe. Information regarding this match will be released when the details have been finalized.
Canada vs. Jamaica Monday, September 4 @ 16:00 Complexe sportif Claude-Robillard - 1000, rue Émile-Journault – Montreal, QC.
Stephen Hart – Bio
On December 21, 2001, Stephen Hart was hired as Canada’s U-17 National Team head coach. Hart had been the Technical Director for Soccer Nova Scotia since 1993 and was the Director of the Atlantic Region National Training Centre in Halifax.
Hart was chosen as Interim head coach of the Men’s National team in July following the departure of Frank Yallop in June 2006.
Holder of a CSA 'A' License, Hart has been an instructor in the CSA coaching development program since 1992. His coaching experience covers a wide spectrum, having coached at the senior and youth levels, both, male and female. He has coached three Canada Games teams and several provincial teams in the last 11 years. He was an assistant coach with the Canadian Men’s Under-17 Team at the 2001 CONCACAF Qualifying Tournament for the Under-17 World Championships. In 2003, Hart was a member of the U-20 National Team coaching staff that lost in the Quarterfinals of the FIFA World Youth Championships in UAE and most recently was the first assistant with the men’s national team since 2005.
A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Hart played for Texaco in the National Football League and the San Fernando Strikers in the local Premier League. In 1980 he was selected to the Trinidad and Tobago national team. Later that year he moved to Canada to attend St. Mary’s University.
Stephen lives in Halifax with his wife Lynn and daughters Eilish, Keva and Yara.
Roster
# Player POS DOB Caps G/S Club Hometown 1 Sutton, Greg GK 4/19/1977 7 3 Montreal Impact Montreal, QC 22 Stamatopoulos, Kenny GK 8/28/1979 4 2 Tromso Markham, ON 2 Braz, Adam D 06/07/1981 7 0 Montreal Impact St. Laurent, QC 3 Pozniak, Chris D/M 01/10/1981 15 0 Haugesund FK Aurora, ON 4 McKenna, Kevin D/F 1/21/1980 33 9 Energie Cottbus Calgary, AB 5 Reda, Marco D 6/22/1977 4 0 Sogndal Woodbridge, ON 6 Bernier, Patrice M 9/23/1979 16 0 Tromso Brossard, QC 7 Stalteri, Paul M 10/18/1977 50 6 Tottenham Hotspur FC Brampton, ON 8 de Guzman, Julian M 3/25/1981 15 0 Deportivo La Coruna Scarborough, ON Radzinski, Tomasz F 12/14/1973 29 7 Fulham Toronto, ON 10 Friend, Rob F 1/23/1981 6 0 Heerenveen Kelowna, BC 11 Brennan, Jim M 05/08/1977 43 6 Southampton Newmarket, ON 12 Gervais, Gabriel D 9/18/1976 8 0 Montreal Impact Brossard, QC 13 Hutchinson, Atiba M 02/08/1983 20 2 FC Copenhagen Brampton, ON 14 Grande, Sandro M 9/29/1977 11 1 Molde Montreal, QC 15 Simpson, Josh D/M 5/15/1983 13 0 Millwall Victoria, BC 16 Hume, Iain M/F 10/30/1983 14 1 Leicester City Brampton, ON 17 Occean, Olivier F 10/23/1981 12 1 Lillestrom Brossard, QB
Staff Stephen Hart - Head Coach Tony Fonseca - Assistant Coach Paul Dolan - Goalkeeper Coach Morgan Quarry - Manager Vic Mendes - Equipment Manager Dave Foley - Physiotherapist Garo Demerdjian - Physiotherapist Rudy Gittens - Doctor Dino Madonis - Head of Delegation
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Well is seems that Canada is coming heavy and fully loaded. Hopefully CB will have an open mind and call up. Garfield Reid, Shavar Thomas and Omar Daley and more.
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The clubs will not release the overseas players unless the games are played on dates set aside for friendlies, which already faces stiff opposition from clubs. You need to develop good relationships with the clubs and not antagonize them.
The new interim coach of canada seems to really want to win his first match. Im going to the game going to be my first internation ever, should be great.
You guys going to be sending the A team or the B team, it seems from the posts the best might not be going?
Anyways it should be fun, I think a couple of my buddies who are jamaican-canadian are coming with me so Im going to hear the **** talk if canada loses
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Squad delay! Brown stalled by absence of English players Observer Reporter Monday, August 28, 2006
BROWN ... we are just trying to get the best of what's available
Exactly one week before Jamaica face Canada in a friendly international in Montreal at the Complexe sportif Claude-Robillard, interim head coach Carl Brown is faced with his first major problem.
And it has forced a delay in the naming of a squad. Brown, who was recently re-appointed head coach of the senior Reggae Boyz, has revealed that the unavailability of the nation's English-based players has delayed his selection process.
"We are just trying to get the best of what's available," Brown told the Observer last week.
"... most of the players who play in England are unavailable to us," added the coach, who is in his fifth stint as national coach.
"The fact that they will play (for their clubs) in England on September 2nd and then to get out of England and go to Canada to play a game on the 4th is really something that we do not want to do.
"So we really would not be able to get most of the players who are available to us in England right now and probably only a few of them would be able to play," Brown insisted.
As a result, Brown will have to look to local-based players, as well as those based outside of England. "So it's about looking at the guys we have in Sweden and the players we have here at home," Brown said.
The countries have agreed to a two-game series, with the return game set for the National Stadium on October 8. Still, Brown, the former Jamaica captain, is relishing the opportunity to try to reverse the recent bad results.
"We have to look at what is happening and what has happened to the football itself. We have not gotten any good results recently and the entire football fraternity is down and this has affected a lot of things along with the marketing ability of the JFF.
"So this Canada game is a game that we could start getting back some attention and some care from the private sector and the public, because they are also a very important part of the football.
"We have to get results the public wants..." he pointed out. And though he is yet to announce his squad, the coach is hoping to hold his first training session tomorrow, and he is confident that he can produce a competitive team.
"I believe it is something that I am capable of doing. There are those players overseas, they will be match-ready. Then you have those here at home presently in their pre-season that might not be as match-ready, but I believe it's about our minds now and how we can get things settled and concentrated so when they get out there they can do their best," reasoned the coach.
"It is also important that we get a positive start for everybody, especially for the players who are so important in all of this, so that they can regain their confidence and get back that frame of mind where they can start believing in themselves again," he said.
But as Brown ponders his squad, his Canadian counterpart, Stephen Hart, who is also acting in an interim capacity, announced an 18-man squad last Wednesday.
Fulham striker and Canada's biggest star in the line-up Tomasz Radzinski is expected to play a key role in the friendly, which will be the 12th encounter between the countries' senior teams.
Six of the 18 selected players have or are playing in Montreal with current Montreal Impacts goalkeeper Greg Sutton, and defenders Adam Braz and Gabriel Gervais.
Past Impact players are Patrice Bernier and Sandro Grand, while forward Olivier Occean, also a native of Montreal, was named 2006 player of the year in Norway playing for Lillestrom.
Goalkeeper Kenny Stamatopolus will join Sutton on the roster. Other players included on the roster are defenders Kevin McKenna (Energie Cottbus, Germany), Chris Pozniak (Haugesund, Norway), Marco Reda (Sogndal, Norway), Paul Stalteri (Tottenham, England) and Josh Simpson (Kaiserslauten, Germany).
Rounding out the midfielders on the roster are Jim Brennan (unattached), Julian de Guzman (Deportivo La Coruna, Spain), Iain Hume (Leicester City, England), and Atiba Hutchinson (Copenhagen, Denmark).
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My reasoning for using the CAC Games squad especially the local based players is that our seasoned professionals are fighing for first team spots in the UK and Europe. Essentially we have the Caribbean and North American based players available for selection.
This is a chance for Reid, Thomas, Daley and some of our U23 players to grow internationally
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posted 08-17-2006 09:44 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I can see the travel problems right now, Boxhill credit card get decline because him figet to pay him bill from Germany, so him a beg Marshall and Williams since dem is big ballas to pay fe to hotel rooms in Montreal. Also since it is a heavy travel weekend and dem still no buy tickets, half de team muss flag a bus when de reach Toronto to arrive in Montreal the morning of the match. Since dem caan tek powder or wata on de plane, man have run a Miss Chin at halftime and beg two juice. All dis while Boxhill a fly first-class with a stop-off in New York at the Waldorf Astoria for a meeting with CONCACAF powers fe beg money. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ten days ago, I knew this would happened......and Boxhill and Brown surprised, our players in the UK can be called up since this is a official FIFA match date, lack of organization and planning.
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Originally posted by jamatl: Squad delay! "... most of the players who play in England are unavailable to us," added the coach, who is in his fifth stint as national coach.
"The fact that they will play (for their clubs) in England on September 2nd and then to get out of England and go to Canada to play a game on the 4th is really something that we do not want to do.
What is CB talking about! The only Jamaicans playing between now and Sept 4th in England is Goodison, Ricketts, and JJ. Where is Fuller, King, Burton, Langley, Francis, Stewpeas, Cambell-Ryce, and Euell. Davis and Gardner injured, so them have escuse.
Top Boyz may miss friendly published: Monday | August 28, 2006
Nodley Wright, Freelance Writer
Interim coach Carl Brown
Eight days before the Reggae Boyz play their first match since being swamped 6-0 by England in a pre-World Cup friendly, the Jamaica Football Federation is still to finalise their squad.
The Reggae Boyz meet Canada in the first of a home and away friendly series on Monday, September 4, and according to recently installed interim coach Carl Brown it has been a difficult process getting the squad together. Brown said he is hopeful of having a squad released today.
"We are having a little problem in that a number of the players that we are trying to get will not come," Brown told The Gleaner yesterday. "Even locally we are having problems. Some of the players that we were hoping to have we understand are still in New York," he added.
No weekend games
With Monday, September 4 being a date recognised by FIFA for friendlies, players in the English Premiership and the Championship will not have any games on the weekends but teams playing in lower leagues will not have that luxury.
"Some of them who play in England will have a game on September 2. It makes no sense to have them play on the Saturday, then fly to Jamaica to fly to Canada on Sunday for the game. It makes no sense," explained Brown who added that players born in Jamaica would require a Canadian visa, which time would not allow.
Among those who are set to miss the match because of a Saturday game are goalkeeper and captain Donovan Ricketts, Jermaine Johnson and Jamal Campbell-Ryce. Ricardo Fuller and Damion Stewart who play in the Championship will make the trip while Claude Davis is injured.
Getting national representatives based in the United States to play in this game is not any easier.
"Tyrone Marshall has just come back from an injury so the club has asked us not select him. Andy Williams we have sent something off to but we have not had a response as yet." added Brown .
The story is no different with the Jamaicans based in Sweden. Luton Shelton was ruled out by a midweek injury while Jermaine Hue's club has, like Marshall's, requested that he not be invited. The other two, midfielder Khari Stephenson and forward Teofore Bennett are available, however.
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Bwoy CB like the punishment, there are so many issues that the duncewell and the no confidence boxface them left unresolved. What about the match fee issue? Is this the reason why so many players are not available?
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The JFF, Boxhill and CB fool, fool bad. Why are they arranging a training camp in Jamaica? Fly all the players directing to Canada for pre-match preparations, believe their are at least 3 non-stop flight from London and Manchester to Toronto. If most of the players are in New York, then link up in New York since 90% of our ballas have a visa to travel to USA since the 2005 Gold Cup and the English-born players can use their British passports to enter. But it is a holiday weekend in the USA and Canada so most flights will be full, and they still have not discussed match fees. Foolish and imcompetence of the highest degree. Dis should have been resolved one month before the match, dem can apply for 30 visas and plane tickets 30 days in advance and then cancel it if they do not use them and get dem money back.
Boxhill...from Boxjuice to Bagjuice; One man's quest to destroy Jamaica's football program.
Oh no not another six love please! Not from Canada too. Bagjuice sure know how fi embrass Jamaica...then him a give CB weave basket fi carry water. Sending the guys to lose will just further harm the program. Sending the youngers out there to play against professionals will just hurt their confidence and set them back. Wi goose cook if we can't pull a decent team together to at least put up a spirited fight.
CB send something to Andy...what about King? or Bibi? I did not think Shelton was that badly hurt...he wanted to play and most of all he is eager to win.
