Canada men's national soccer team

Canada

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Nickname(s)	the Canucks, the Maple Leaves
Association	Canadian Soccer Association
Head coach	Frank Yallop, 2003- July 2006
Most caps	Randy Samuel (82)
Top scorer	John Catliff, Dale Mitchell (19)
FIFA code	CAN
First colours Second colours
First international
USA 0 - 1 Canada (Newark, USA; November 28, 1885)
Biggest win
USA 0 - 7 Canada (St. Louis, USA; November 16, 1904)
Biggest defeat
Mexico 8 - 0 Canada (Mexico City, Mexico; June 18, 1993)
World Cup
Appearances	1 (first in 1986)
Best result	Round 1, 1986
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Appearances	7 (first in 1991)
Best result	Winners, 2000

The Canadian men's national soccer team, overseen by the Canadian Soccer Association, has experienced little international success. In its first and only FIFA World Cup appearance to date in 1986, the team failed to score a goal and finished last. The Canadian team, however, has enjoyed success in the CONCACAF Gold Cup, surprisingly winning the tournament in 2000 and advancing to the semifinals in 2002. However, thoughts that the side was emerging as a soccer power were at least temporarily discarded with a poor showing in the qualification rounds for the 2006 FIFA World Cup where it failed to reach the final stage of CONCACAF qualifying.

The Canadian team has been in a rebuilding phase since failing to qualify for the 2006 World Cup. Several long-serving veteran players retired from international football following the team's failure to qualify and recently resigned head coach Frank Yallop had been building around younger players in hopes of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup. On January 22, 2006, Canada held the highly favoured United States to a 0-0 draw in San Diego, though the Americans did not field their best possible squad on the day. A few weeks later, on March 1, 2006, the young Canadian side upset Austria 2-0 in Vienna. Substitute midfielder Jim Brennan scored both goals for Canada in the second half while young goalkeeper Kenny Stamatopoulos recorded the shutout in goal.

Canada's Under-20 team continued this recent success for Canada by defeating Brazil in the first game of a three game series, defeating the Brazilians 2-1 in front of 14,000+ at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton on May 19, 2006. Will Johnson scored the winning goal and Stephen Lumley made an amazing slide to kick the ball off the goal line, to preserve Canada's first win over Brazil at any age level. Canada lost the remaining two matches 3-1. Many have pointed out that this was Brazil's "C" team.

As in the United States, the Canadian women's national soccer team has enjoyed more international success than the men. The FIFA rankings for May 2006 have the men's team ranked an disappointing 83rd out of 205 countries, while the women's team is ranked 12th out of 121 countries as of March 2006. (Note that the men's rankings are updated monthly, while the women's rankings are updated quarterly.) Both national teams languish to a large extent in the shadow of the country's highly successful national ice hockey teams, as hockey is Canada's de facto national sport.

Past members of the national team including Roger Sportsnet commentator Craig Forrest have stated numerous times that the Canadian national program is in need of a major overhaul; Forrest believes Canada has the support and talent to compete for a World Cup berth, something it has failed to do now for two decades.

World Cup record

• 1930 to 1954 - Did not enter
• 1958 - Did not qualify
• 1962 - Withdrew
• 1966 - Did not enter
• 1970 to 1982 - Did not qualify
• 1986 - Round 1
• 1990 to 2006 - Did not qualify

Gold Cup record

• 1991 - Round 1
• 1993 - Round 1
• 1996 - Round 1
• 1998 - Withdrew after qualifying
• 2000 - Champions
• 2002 - Third place
• 2003 - Round 1
• 2005 - Round 1

Current national team members

According to the official site [1]

Goalkeepers

Player	Date of birth	Club	Caps (shutouts)	Most Recent Call up
Asmir Bergovic	6/20/1987	La Louvière	0 (0)	v Luxembourg, November 16, 2005
Mike Franks	4/27/1977	unattached	0 (0)	2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup
Lars Hirschfeld	10/17/1978	Rosenborg	18 (5)	v Luxembourg, November 16, 2005
Kenny Stamatopoulos	8/28/1979	Tromsø	4 (2)	v Austria, March 1st, 2006
Greg Sutton	4/19/1977	Montreal Impact	7 (3)	v Austria March 1st, 2006
Joshua Wagenaar	2/26/1985	ADO Den Haag	0 (0)	v Spain September 3, 2005

Defenders

Player	Date of birth	Club	Caps (goals)	Most Recent Call up
Adam Braz	6/7/1981	Montreal Impact	7 (0)	v USA January 20, 2006
Gabriel Gervais	9/18/1976	Montreal Impact	8 (0)	v USA January 20, 2006
Andrew Hainault	6/17/1986	FK Siad Most	0 (0)	v USA January 20, 2006
Ante Jazic	2/26/1976	Los Angeles Galaxy	7 (0)	v Austria March 1st, 2006
Michael Klukowski	5/27/1981	FC Brugge	7 (0)	v Austria March 1st, 2006
Kevin McKenna	1/21/1980	Energie Cottbus	33 (9)	v Austria, March 1st, 2006
Tony Menezes	11/24/1974	Toronto Lynx	27 (0)	v Costa Rica September 8, 2004
Nevio Pizzolito	8/26/1976	Montreal Impact	9 (0)	v USA January 20, 2006
Chris Pozniak	1/10/1981	Haugesund	15 (0)	v Austria March 1st, 2006
Marco Reda	6/22/1977	Sogndal	4 (0)	v Austria March 1st, 2006
Josh Simpson	5/15/1983	Millwall	13 (0)	v Luxembourg, November 16, 2005

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
?	4FW	Stephen Ademolu	November 20 1982	2	Tromsø I.L.
6/8	3MF	Patrice Bernier	September 23 1979	16	Tromsø I.L.
4/11	3MF	Jim Brennan	May 8 1977	43	Southampton FC
16	3MF	Julian de Guzman	March 25 1981	15	Deportivo de La Coruña
14	3MF	Dwayne De Rosario	May 15 1978	37	Houston Dynamo
13/16	4FW	Rob Friend	January 23 1981	6	SC Heerenveen
17	4FW	Ali Gerba	July 27 1982	6	IFK Göteborg
10/12	3MF	Sandro Grande	September 29 1977	11	Molde F.K.
16	4FW	Iain Hume	October 30 1983	14	Leicester City F.C.
13/14	3MF	Atiba Hutchinson	February 8 1983	20	FC København
8	3MF	Daniel Imhof	November 22 1977	32	VfL Bochum
10/12	4FW	Will Johnson	January 21 1987	3	SC Heerenveen
16	3MF	Patrick Leduc	December 26 1977	3	Montreal Impact
17	4FW	Olivier Occean	October 23 1981	12	Lillestrøm S.K.
13	3MF	Jaime Peters	May 4 1987	12	Ipswich Town F.C.
15	3MF	Rocco Placentino	February 25 1982	1	Gualdo Calcio
9	4FW	Tomasz Radzinski	December 14 1973	29	Fulham F.C.
6/12	3MF	Adrian Serioux	May 12 1979	9	Houston Dynamo
7	3MF	Paul Stalteri	October 18 1977	50	Tottenham Hotspur
?	3MF	Ive Sulentic	December 24 1979	2	FC St. Pauli

Prominent former national team members

Garry Ayre Geoff Aunger Jason Bent Eddy Berdusco Bob Bolitho Ian Bridge Alex Bunbury John Catliff Tony Chursky Jeff Clarke Carlo Corazzin Nick Dasovic Pasquale DeLuca Jason deVos Paul Dolan Jimmy Douglas Paul Fenwick John Fitzgerald Carl Fletcher Craig Forrest Iain Fraser Kevin Grant

Gerry Gray Richard Hastings Lyndon Hooper Chris Horrocks Lucio Ianerio Robert Iarusci Paul James Glen Johnson John Kerr Sr. Garret Kusch Tony Lecce Bob Lenarduzzi Sam Lenarduzzi John Limniatis Jamie Lowery Shaun Lowther Trevor McCallum Wes McLeod John McGrane Colin Miller Dale Mitchell Domenic Mobilio

Terry Moore Martin Nash David Norman Pat Onstad George Pakos Buzz Parsons Paul Peschisolido Randy Ragan Brian Robinson Peter Roe Randy Samuel Peter Sarantopoulos Branko Segota Mike Stojanovic Mike Sweeney Tino Lettieri Carl Valentine Igor Vrablic Mark Watson Bruce Wilson Davide Xausa Frank Yallop

All-time Record against other nations

As of March 1, 2006

Team	W	D	L	Pts
United States	13	9	13	48
Haiti	6	2	1	20
Guatemala	6	2	2	20
Trinidad and Tobago	6	2	2	20
El Salvador	6	2	4	20
Bermuda	5	4	0	19
Honduras	5	4	6	19
Mexico	4	7	15	19
Jamaica	4	5	2	17
Cuba	4	3	2	15
New Zealand	4	2	1	14
Costa Rica	3	5	7	14
Australia	3	1	4	10
Panama	2	2	0	8
Northern Ireland	2	1	0	7
South Korea	2	1	1	7
Belize	2	0	0	6
Luxembourg	2	0	0	6
Singapore	2	0	0	6
Martinique	1	1	0	4
Chile	1	1	2	4
Austria	1	0	0	3
Barbados	1	0	0	3
Ghana	1	0	0	3
Hong Kong	1	0	0	3
Indonesia	1	0	0	3
Libya	1	0	0	3
Macedonia	1	0	0	3
Malaysia	1	0	0	3
Suriname	1	0	0	3
Switzerland	1	0	0	3
China	1	0	1	3
Colombia	1	0	1	3
Faeroe Islands	1	0	1	3
Greece	1	0	2	3
Iran	1	0	2	3
Wales	1	0	2	3
Brazil	0	2	1	2
Cyprus	0	1	0	1
Paraguay	0	1	0	1
Uruguay	0	1	0	1
Morocco	0	1	1	1
North Korea	0	1	1	1
Portugal	0	1	1	1
Hungary	0	1	3	1
Algeria	0	0	1	0
Argentina	0	0	1	0
Belgium	0	0	1	0
Cameroon	0	0	1	0
Czech Republic	0	0	1	0
England	0	0	1	0
Estonia	0	0	1	0
Finland	0	0	1	0
France	0	0	1	0
Iraq	0	0	1	0
Ireland	0	0	1	0
Italy	0	0	1	0
Japan	0	0	1	0
Malta	0	0	1	0
Netherlands	0	0	1	0
Saudi Arabia	0	0	1	0
Soviet Union	0	0	1	0
Tunisia	0	0	1	0
Turkey	0	0	1	0
Denmark	0	0	2	0
Egypt	0	0	2	0
Germany	0	0	2	0
Spain	0	0	2	0
East Germany	0	0	3	0
Ecuador	0	0	3	0
Poland	0	0	5	0
Scotland	0	0	6	0

The highest won match is 7:0 against the US in 1904 at the Olympic Games. The highest lost match is 0:8 against Mexico in 1993 at the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The first match was 1885 against the US (1:0 win).

See also

• Soccer in Canada
• Canada women's national soccer team

External links

• Canadian Soccer Association
• Record International Players
• International Results until 1999