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Morace resigns as Canadian soccer head coach

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

Carolina Morace (Bing Images)

The news from the Canadian Soccer Association came as absolutely no surprise to me on Friday.

After a pitiful performance by the Canadian women’s soccer team at the Women’s World Cup in Germany this past month, Canadian head coach Carolina Morace has announced her resignation.

According to the Canadian Press, Morace, of Italian descent, did not like what she heard from the Canadian Soccer Association during an internal review meeting in Ottawa on Wednesday.

Canadian assistant coaches Elisabetta Bavagnoli and Andrea Neil, goaltending coach Max Colucci, and fitness coach Mario Familari also resigned. Neil, subsequently, is being inducted into the Canada Sports Hall of Fame in November.

In Canada’s two meaningful games at the Women’s World Cup, they got badly outplayed in a 2-1 loss to Germany and a 4-0 loss to France.

Canada finished dead last, sixteenth in the 16 team tournament.

This was not the first time Morace resigned. In February, she announced she would resign from Canadian Soccer immediately after the Women’s World Cup. The players protested and Morace changed her mind. Morace, was reportedly dissatisfied with the long term strategy of Canadian soccer.

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Canada to host Women’s World Cup of Soccer in 2015

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

Canadian soccer received great news today from FIFA. Canada will be hosting the 2015 Women’s World Cup of Soccer. Expect games to be played in Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto and Edmonton.

In fact, based on the roaring success of the 2002 FIFA Women’s u-19 World Championship, expect many of the most important games in the tournament to be played in our provincial capital.

This will be the seventh Women’s World Cup dating back to 1991 in China. The tournaments have been hosted by China twice, the United States twice, Sweden, and in Germany this June.

After failing to qualify in 1991, Canada finished with a record of 0-2-1 in 1995 in Sweden and again in 1999 in the United States.

In 2003 in the United States, Canada posted its best record, finishing with a record of 2-1 in the round robin and a 3-0 victory over Argentina and a 3-1 win over Japan. In the quarterfinals, Charmaine Hooper was the hero, as Canada upset the heavily favoured Chinese 1-0. Canada would then lose 2-1 to Sweden in the semi-finals.

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And I’m sticking to it – 15 minutes of fame with Jim and Geoffrey

Monday, February 21st, 2011

It’s 15 Minutes of Fame for this week and Jim is in Mexico so it makes him a little hard to hear!

This week the boys talk a lot about the National Hockey League’s trade deadline. There have been lots of trades and the boys wonder if the Edmonton Oilers are going to get in on any of them.

Then in the GABBYs: On the good side – the resurgence of the Calgary Flames, the National Football League enters into mediated negotiations with the NFL players association and Peter Forsberg retires gracefully.

On the bad side: Peter Forsberg retires! Tiger Woods can’t do anything right and will the Canadian Soccer Association please pay the women players?

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Canadian Women’s Soccer team uniting

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Christine Sinclair (Wikimedia Commons)

The story regarding the Canadian women’s soccer team is continuing to get very interesting.

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Canadian Women’s Soccer in turmoil

Friday, February 4th, 2011

Carolina Morace (Bing Images)

A major surprise was announced today regarding women’s soccer. According to CBC Sports, Canadian women’s head coach Carolina Morace announced her resignation, effective immediately after the Women’s World Cup in Germany this summer.

I believe her announcement is the worst timing possible. The Canadian women were just starting to gel as a team under Morace’s more open minded system. She had been extremely popular among the players since taking over from Even Pellerud in 2009. Canada won the 2010 CONACAF Championship and were starting to make serious noise on the international soccer scene.

But according to the CBC, she disagreed with the long term strategy of the Canadian Soccer Association’s program.

I say, the Canadian Soccer Association needs to give their head a shake. The men’s program is in complete ruins, and more effort and resources should be provided to a women’s program now ranked number nine in the world.

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Weekend Sports Recap–November 6-7

Monday, November 8th, 2010

Christine Sinclair (John Maxmena, Wikimedia Commons)

Before I discuss the sad news from the weekend, I’m going to address the happy news.

Friday evening I tuned into www.cbcsports.ca to watch Canada and Costa Rica in women’s soccer from Cancun, Mexico. A World Cup berth in 2011 in Germany was on the line.

Canada won 4-0 and booked their ticket to Berlin. Canada was once again led by Christine Sinclair who scored her fifth goal of the tournament.

This was a new style of Canadian soccer. Under the old regime of Even Pellerud from 1999-2008, the style was more dump and chase. In the new era with Carolina Morace in charge, there is considerable more passing and offensive minded styles. Which system is better is too early to tell. Pellerud deserves significant credit for leading Canada to credible nation status internationally when it comes to women’s soccer.

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