rkomar Posted Thursday at 07:11 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:11 PM It seems to me that other countries just don't like coming to Canada to play a friendly. It's a long way to come and we probably aren't that generous in what we pay them. I think it is natural that we can go long stretches between finding suitable opponents who want to participate. narduch and ahmedou 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmedou Posted Thursday at 07:17 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:17 PM 4 minutes ago, rkomar said: It seems to me that other countries just don't like coming to Canada to play a friendly. It's a long way to come and we probably aren't that generous in what we pay them. I think it is natural that we can go long stretches between finding suitable opponents who want to participate. I wanted so bad Canada vs Tunisia. I heard many times that there were talks between Canada Soccer and FTF. Maybe one day. In a friendly game. Or in the World Cup. costarg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metro Posted Thursday at 08:25 PM Share Posted Thursday at 08:25 PM 4 hours ago, Kent said: Someone mentioned the attendance at the game being the highest for a friendly in a long time. I got curious, and looked up the attendance in all of our home friendlies ever. Here are the times we drew over 10000 fans. Hopefully I didn't miss any. I used Canada Soccer's website and filtered on the word "Friendly". The two games above at the SkyDome didn't show up, presumably because it was a friendly cup rather than just friendlies. Not sure if there are other similar friendly cups not included. I just happened to remember about the SkyDome games so I looked them up specifically. But yeah, Tuesday's game is the 2nd most attended home friendly for Canada just behind the Brazil game in Edmonton just before the 1994 World Cup. Not bad! There was the Matthews Cup tournament at Varsity in '86 when Canada played Greece, Chile and Greece again in the "Final". Pretty sure at least the two matches against Greece had attendances over 10K. Also, for all you kids out there, the SkyDome friendlies were played on astroturf. Yummy! ahmedou and Kent 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sal333 Posted Thursday at 08:27 PM Share Posted Thursday at 08:27 PM 5 hours ago, youllneverwalkalone said: Any ideas why those ding dongs at One soccer haven't posted the replay? The answer is embedded in your question. Ding Dongs. ahmedou 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sal333 Posted Thursday at 08:32 PM Share Posted Thursday at 08:32 PM 1 hour ago, ahmedou said: I wanted so bad Canada vs Tunisia. I heard many times that there were talks between Canada Soccer and FTF. Maybe one day. In a friendly game. Or in the World Cup. If that happens, I'd hate to be in your shoes. You'd be both crying and laughing at the same time. And it wouldn't matter which team did what to the other. ahmedou 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Posted Thursday at 08:54 PM Share Posted Thursday at 08:54 PM 28 minutes ago, Metro said: There was the Matthews Cup tournament at Varsity in '86 when Canada played Greece, Chile and Greece again in the "Final". Pretty sure at least the two matches against Greece had attendances over 10K. Also, for all you kids out there, the SkyDome friendlies were played on astroturf. Yummy! Thanks! The second Greece game had 10531 at the game. The first Greece game was 8763 and the Chile game was 4178. Metro, narduch and ahmedou 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted Thursday at 09:37 PM Share Posted Thursday at 09:37 PM 2 hours ago, GasPed said: I believe the argument is that when things boil over, it's generally not because of what the ref did at that moment; it's because of what they did (or didn't do) in the minutes prior. That said, I personally think Penso did a very creditable job last night. I like her "handsy" style (I think it calms the boys down a bit), and while it's true she may have kept her whistle in her pocket too much, if she had called more fouls it would've detracted from the game in other ways. What I'm also saying though is that a ref is always judged in hindsight - the game went quite smoothly, so she did a great job. If it hadn't (and it was close to not - we're lucky Cornelius and Murillo are OM teammates), there'd be lots of second-guessing today. Related to this, I saw David greeted a rival player as he went off, but I am not sure who it was, it seemed they knew each other too. But I can't find any Panamanian who he would have coincided with. ahmedou 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket Robin Posted Thursday at 09:42 PM Share Posted Thursday at 09:42 PM Finally! All the audio from the post game press conference after the Oct 15/24 international friendly between Canada and Panama. Coaches Jesse Marsch (15 min English) and Thomas Christiansen (11 min mostly in Spanish). http://www.rocketrobinsoccerintoronto.com/reports24/24cana03.htm rkomar, johnyb, gator and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted Thursday at 09:49 PM Share Posted Thursday at 09:49 PM Now time to be a bit of a party-pooper. If that was a group stage match at a World Cup and we had to squeeze by like that late vs. a rival that is not better than us, I'd be worried. If we get a rival like that in the WC group stage at home and can't easily get the three points, that's not good. Or another way to put it: we did not have control for some critical periods, and let a team that was inferior on the pitch catch up to us to draw and even threaten with a disastrous result. That suggests that we have a ways to go, and that as thrilled as many are for the win, there are things still lacking. As I posted during the 1st half, we were very rushed and not playing in a way that expressed our superiority. I thought especially the mids were rushed, forced, we were hyper, which for me is a misinterpretation of high intensity. When Staq and Choinière were the ones that had to put a bit of tempo and order into things, they missed the assignment. It is like you get the order to play high pace, but then everything is merely frenetic. By playing like that we did not get that many effective chances, mostly top of the box shots, often rebounds, but not building going forward. That is something Marsch has to sort out, but I am not sure he's clear about. The pace you defend with to get a ball back is different from the intensity in possession, which still needs proper spacing, positional play, patience to break down a rival block, periods when you are not madly going for goal, a bit of measure. You will break down the rival by keeping it moving, probing, and especially you want your best passers to be in a position to find a run by the best striker: Staq to David, ideally. Something we rarely get to see. I don't mind if a comparable team is a challenge, that is not a problem and the reality of world soccer. What I do mind is thinking that was such a great performance. An example, and here I will not be in agreement with others here: Bombito was great defending, no question, but was often on the wrong side of the ball and just recovered well; and did not contribute going forward in any creative way. I'd temper the praises a bit, he still hasn't proven to be an elite defender. ahmedou, GasPed, nolando and 3 others 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueseeka Posted Thursday at 10:19 PM Share Posted Thursday at 10:19 PM (edited) 1 hour ago, Metro said: There was the Matthews Cup tournament at Varsity in '86 when Canada played Greece, Chile and Greece again in the "Final". Pretty sure at least the two matches against Greece had attendances over 10K. I was there as a nine year old. My first sports memory. Pretty sure it was the second game since I remember penalties. I have memory of a single Blue Jay game and the Greece soccer game. My dad never ever believed in paying for a sporting event. I have no idea how he brought us I have been trying to get him to join me and my son for a Canada game but he won't. He is a very stubborn 80 year old. "Why pay when, I will have a better view on tv. " Because of the memories, you will leave your grandson Edited Thursday at 10:20 PM by blueseeka ahmedou, narduch, EricC and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted Thursday at 10:29 PM Share Posted Thursday at 10:29 PM 51 minutes ago, Unnamed Trialist said: Related to this, I saw David greeted a rival player as he went off, but I am not sure who it was, it seemed they knew each other too. But I can't find any Panamanian who he would have coincided with. They have a defender that plays for Marseille. He subbed on on Tuesday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Amir_Murillo ahmedou and johnyb 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted Thursday at 10:33 PM Share Posted Thursday at 10:33 PM 13 minutes ago, blueseeka said: My dad never ever believed in paying for a sporting event. Our dads must be friends ahmedou 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmedou Posted Thursday at 10:58 PM Share Posted Thursday at 10:58 PM 2 hours ago, Sal333 said: If that happens, I'd hate to be in your shoes. You'd be both crying and laughing at the same time. And it wouldn't matter which team did what to the other. Sal333, Obinna and Approve My Account Pls 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe MacCarthy Posted Thursday at 11:11 PM Share Posted Thursday at 11:11 PM ahmedou 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GasPed Posted Friday at 12:01 AM Share Posted Friday at 12:01 AM 56 minutes ago, ahmedou said: What I'd be more concerned about is how many jerseys you'd have to take/wear to the game. ahmedou 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmedou Posted Friday at 01:29 AM Share Posted Friday at 01:29 AM 1 hour ago, GasPed said: What I'd be more concerned about is how many jerseys you'd have to take/wear to the game. Last game I had 14 jerseys in my bag! 14 jerseys! GasPed and narduch 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trc2014 Posted Friday at 01:33 AM Share Posted Friday at 01:33 AM 3 hours ago, Unnamed Trialist said: Related to this, I saw David greeted a rival player as he went off, but I am not sure who it was, it seemed they knew each other too. But I can't find any Panamanian who he would have coincided with. It was Rodriguez - they played at Gent at the same time. ahmedou, Unnamed Trialist, CanadaFan123 and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gator Posted Friday at 01:40 AM Share Posted Friday at 01:40 AM 5 hours ago, Metro said: There was the Matthews Cup tournament at Varsity in '86 when Canada played Greece, Chile and Greece again in the "Final". Pretty sure at least the two matches against Greece had attendances over 10K. Also, for all you kids out there, the SkyDome friendlies were played on astroturf. Yummy! We were at the final at Varsity, it was a good crowd and we joined a bit of a pitch invasion and did a victory lap with the team, all caught on TSN, my dad saw it live on tv and thought for sure we would be jailed!😀 ahmedou and Metro 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie_the_parrot Posted Friday at 08:53 AM Share Posted Friday at 08:53 AM 17 hours ago, Kent said: Someone mentioned the attendance at the game being the highest for a friendly in a long time. I got curious, and looked up the attendance in all of our home friendlies ever. Here are the times we drew over 10000 fans. I attended the 1992/05/20 and 1994/06/08 games at Varsity Stadium against Scotland and Germany, respectively. There appeared to me to be almost nobody at either game actively supporting Canada with shirts, scarves etc. The extent to which someone doing so at the time (and there were a few at both games, but < 1% of the crowd sort of numbers) was swimming against the tide of what the mainstream media was constantly telling the population was a Canadian thing to do should not be underestimated. Something to bear in mind when comparing this 23315 number to CMNT friendly games in the GTA from 30 or 40 years ago. Kent and ahmedou 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Posted Friday at 11:49 AM Share Posted Friday at 11:49 AM 2 hours ago, Ozzie_the_parrot said: I attended the 1992/05/20 and 1994/06/08 games at Varsity Stadium against Scotland and Germany, respectively. There appeared to me to be almost nobody at either game actively supporting Canada with shirts, scarves etc. The extent to which someone doing so at the time (and there were a few at both games, but < 1% of the crowd sort of numbers) was swimming against the tide of what the mainstream media was constantly telling the population was a Canadian thing to do should not be underestimated. Something to bear in mind when comparing this 23315 number to CMNT friendly games in the GTA from 30 or 40 years ago. That 1992 game against Scotland you mentioned was the first national team game I ever went to. I was 12 at the time and went with my soccer team. I was amazed at how many people (I assumed) travelled from Scotland to see the game. Lots of Scottish jerseys and flags in the stands. At the Panama game this week when they scored I heard some cheers and thought to myself that there are still some opposition fans at the game, but I didn't really see them. costarg, gator and ahmedou 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadaFan123 Posted Friday at 11:58 AM Share Posted Friday at 11:58 AM It must be amazing for Canada alum to be at a match like Tuesday and see a crowd of 23,000 and 22,950 of those fans being for Canada. For a friendly! Corazon, ahmedou, costarg and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyslexic nam Posted Friday at 12:00 PM Share Posted Friday at 12:00 PM Just now, CanadaFan123 said: It must be amazing for Canada alum to be at a match like Tuesday and see a crowd of 23,000 and 22,950 of those fans being for Canada. For a friendly! I would guess like 95% amazing and 5% WTF, where was this when we were playing? CanadaFan123, ahmedou and costarg 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmedou Posted Friday at 12:07 PM Share Posted Friday at 12:07 PM 7 minutes ago, CanadaFan123 said: It must be amazing for Canada alum to be at a match like Tuesday and see a crowd of 23,000 and 22,950 of those fans being for Canada. For a friendly! I wanted to say that Panama fans were classy. Not like the Panama players - who were unclassy. jonovision 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie_the_parrot Posted Friday at 12:23 PM Share Posted Friday at 12:23 PM (edited) 42 minutes ago, Kent said: ...I was amazed at how many people (I assumed) travelled from Scotland to see the game. Lots of Scottish jerseys and flags in the stands... Bear in mind though that there were still lots of relatively recent first and second generation immigrants of Scottish extraction living in Southern Ontario at that time. Emigration from Scotland to Canada was still happening on a reasonably large scale into the 1970s. I kept running into people I knew from London, Ont in that regard throughout that evening and I didn't know all that many Scottish people from London at the time. Maybe a few dozen. Doubt there would have been all that many fans there who flew over from Scotland although there no doubt would have been some. CMNT friendlies in Toronto in that era were often about which visting countries would have the fans needed locally to help cover the costs. Without that crowds would have been small. The Panama game this week shows that the CSA might finally be able to start using CMNT friendlies against CONCACAF teams that can't provide that attendance boost to start generating some significant revenue. Funniest thing I remember from the 1992 Scotland game was that I am 99% certain I wound up sitting behind David Gilmour of the CBC and as a refined arts critic he was definitely less than impressed by some of what the more inebriated Scotland fans were getting up to in his immediate vicinity. Edited Friday at 12:31 PM by Ozzie_the_parrot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
costarg Posted Friday at 12:45 PM Share Posted Friday at 12:45 PM 37 minutes ago, ahmedou said: I wanted to say that Panama fans were classy. Not like the Panama players - who were unclassy. Difficult to post a reaction to this post. I want to like the first line, but dislike the second line, even if i agree. ahmedou 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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