InglewoodJack Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 9 hours ago, Watchmen said: I hope at least one of the games gets them at least moderately paid. You'd think Davies/David/Buchanan would be enough for the opposition to market a Canada game around and the team as a whole make the game worthwhile as an opponent. The entire world thinks our team are a bunch of pro ams with an overrated bundesliga player. I think the allure of playing Canada in Europe is the same as Iran was for us, ie here’s a World Cup quality side who we don’t typically pay, this is better than if we were gonna play the same UEFA country for a fiftieth time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pod818 Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 (edited) I think England may have an interest in playing us only because they may think it is a similar matchup as the USA and would be good world cup prep for them. Same would go for Wales I guess Edited June 11, 2022 by pod818 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pod818 Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 (edited) double post Edited June 11, 2022 by pod818 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 People need to stop dreaming about a Euro opponent. Uefa Nations League makes it impossible again. Only Iceland and Israel are available and that is only because Russia has been booted from the competition. We should try to play an African side and a South American side jhoops__, TGAA_Star, JamboAl and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympique_de_Marseille Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 6 minutes ago, narduch said: People need to stop dreaming about a Euro opponent. Uefa Nations League makes it impossible again. Only Iceland and Israel are available and that is only because Russia has been booted from the competition. We should try to play an African side and a South American side This +100000000 Our options are: Iceland, Israel, Burundi, New Zealand, an AFC team or a CONMEBOL team. All the other options are CONCACAF teams or minnows. We may even do the ol' switcheroo with the USA. While they play Japan, we play Saudi Arabia and while they play Saudi Arabia, we play Japan. narduch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 15 minutes ago, narduch said: People need to stop dreaming about a Euro opponent. Uefa Nations League makes it impossible again. Only Iceland and Israel are available and that is only because Russia has been booted from the competition. We should try to play an African side and a South American side Portugal, Spain, Czechia and Switzerland all play their first game September 24. Other groups start earlier. Maybe we can play one of these teams on the earliest possible date in the September window? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 17 hours ago, SpecialK said: Why isn’t there July and August window ? Because there's a rather big one in November and December. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 16 minutes ago, Alex said: Portugal, Spain, Czechia and Switzerland all play their first game September 24. Other groups start earlier. Maybe we can play one of these teams on the earliest possible date in the September window? How though? Players will have a weekend club game on September 17 or 18. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGAA_Star Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 37 minutes ago, narduch said: People need to stop dreaming about a Euro opponent. Uefa Nations League makes it impossible again. Only Iceland and Israel are available and that is only because Russia has been booted from the competition. We should try to play an African side and a South American side For African sides I would go with Tunisia or Senegal or even my country of Ghana for Canada to play in a friendly As far as South American sides I would go with Ecuador or Uruguay for a friendly Unnamed Trialist and narduch 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Man there is African Cup of Nations qualifying too. The opponents will be hard to come by again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGAA_Star Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Unless you play Asian teams for friendlies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Just now, TGAA_Star said: Unless you play Asian teams for friendlies Looks like Asian and Conmebol are the most available TGAA_Star 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchmen Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 44 minutes ago, TGAA_Star said: For African sides I would go with Tunisia or Senegal or even my country of Ghana for Canada to play in a friendly As far as South American sides I would go with Ecuador or Uruguay for a friendly Have heard this week that the CSA was trying to book Tunisia initially instead of Iran, but Tunisia was asking for more while almost certainly being a smaller gate. But it makes me think the lines of dialog are open with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian-Luca Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 In terms of potential South American WC-bound opponents, Uruguay have now already played three friendlies against Concacaf teams, winning 3-0 against Mexico, drawing the US 0-0 and blowing out Panama 5-0. They also were originally lined up to play Jamaica. So on the one hand they clearly don't feel that prepping against Concacaf teams is beneath them (unless Panama's performance against them have suddenly convinced them otherwise). On the other hand, for September they might be saying "enough with Concacaf already" since they have already played 3 of the top 5 teams from the region (based on Hex qualifying). Addona 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigi riva Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 Euro nations league will make it hard to get a friendly lined up , and if we did it will be played on European Soil, i think we should get a friendy with a Afcon nation or a Asian nation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metafisical Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 I have lost all hope of playing against the top tier or mid tier UEFA teams. My prediction is another CONCACAF, AFC or Oceania team. Any better opponent will be gravy to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 I know it's not the level we want, but with Russia out of their group, Israel may promote to 1st tier Nations League. Then again, Turkey are in league C, playing quasi minnows. Nations League is an interesting way to caliber a region's strength, over the longer term especially. I'm not advocating playing Israel or Iceland btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGAA_Star Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 Canada against the Russian Federation I thought Russia was banned from all international competitions for both men and women so can they really even play friendly matches? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil03 Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 Honestly, playing against Russia would be a PR nightmare that would dwarf anything we have gotten recently! With Iran a case could be made that, while they should have been better prepared for the PR stuff or pass on Iran, the CSA thought they were ok based on other cultural and sports figure from there being allowed in. With Russia no argument like that can be made: it is crystal clear that playing sporting competitions with Russia is seen as beyond the pale by the Government of Canada and Canadian Society as a whole since late february. The public, the politicians, the media and probably some of the players too will strongly object, to say the least. FIFA might not be object to a friendly but they are definitely not gonna be impressed... Hell, even the IOC, who tend to be most morally reprehensibly lenient of all international sports organisations and has done their level best to have their doping-related issue being treated with kids gloves, has banned them indefinitely! This is one of the last things we need right now. footballfreak and TGAA_Star 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGAA_Star Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 1 hour ago, phil03 said: Honestly, playing against Russia would be a PR nightmare that would dwarf anything we have gotten recently! With Iran a case could be made that, while they should have been better prepared for the PR stuff or pass on Iran, the CSA thought they were ok based on other cultural and sports figure from there being allowed in. With Russia no argument like that can be made: it is crystal clear that playing sporting competitions with Russia is seen as beyond the pale by the Government of Canada and Canadian Society as a whole since late february. The public, the politicians, the media and probably some of the players too will strongly object, to say the least. FIFA might not be object to a friendly but they are definitely not gonna be impressed... Hell, even the IOC, who tend to be most morally reprehensibly lenient of all international sports organisations and has done their level best to have their doping-related issue being treated with kids gloves, has banned them indefinitely! This is one of the last things we need right now. As far as PR nightmare, playing Russia I definitely agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califax Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Just to be clear, I don’t care if the opponent is in Europe as long as the games are. That shouldn’t be that hard to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hodgkiss Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 It would be great to play France and Serbia considering the similarity in quality and playing styles of Belgium and Croatia. However, there is part of me that doesn't want to play such good teams because I want Canada to have the element of surprise for their WC matches. I really hope that Herdman uses multiple in-game formations so that we keep other teams on their toes. But honestly, we need to test ourselves - regardless of the results. England, Germany, Italy, Spain, France... bring it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhoops__ Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 We’re not playing any euro teams. Asian and SA squad most likely… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obinna Posted June 14, 2022 Author Share Posted June 14, 2022 We've been in discussions with Argentina previously, right? Maybe we play them and Algeria in France, or possibly Tunisia. Unnamed Trialist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhoops__ Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 Uruguay and Japan perhaps … Obinna 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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