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Nigel Reed
Canadian pride sees Reds rise again
Toronto FC is Canadian champion for the fourth straight year but the best team in Canada? Hardly. Yet the Voyageurs Cup will get a regular polish at BMO Field until at least 2013.
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Ben Rycroft
Canada crams for Olympic 'reality check'
Part of preparing for the enormity of the challenge facing Canada's national women's soccer team at the London Olympic has meant taking the players out of the gym and putting them in the classroom.
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Nigel Reed
Manchester City begins quest to build dynasty
Winning the title is one thing. Building a dynasty is quite another.
Manchester City will begin next season in the unfamiliar position of championship
favourites. The pressure will be on from the get-go and they will be the
team everyone else wants to beat.
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Nigel Reed
TFC's troubles coming to a head
In a results-oriented business the team owners would have no choice but to bite the bullet and relieve the TFC coach Aron Winters of his duties should the team's free fall continue.
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Ben Rycroft
The roadblocks to becoming a Canadian soccer coach
The road to becoming a professional soccer coach in Canada isn't easy. In fact, it's damn hard.Multiple rounds trips across the Atlantic Ocean, tens of thousands of dollars in registration fees and nearly a decade of commitment will get you a UEFA pro license - but, what then? Jobs are few and far between and even in your own country where the clubs are always looking for something more.
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Nigel Reed
Canadian quartet locks horns
The Canadian Championship may just be the smallest cup competition in the world. The soccer snobs can go ahead and ridicule a national championship with so few contestants. But, like the Canadian weather, you have to live here to get it.
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Nigel Reed
Soccer's hidden medical dangers
The subject of professional soccer players with undetected medical ailments losing their life on the pitch is back on the front burner in 2012, with the soccer industry having done little to prevent such tragedy.
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Nigel Reed
Ghost goals have got to go
It is coming and it will change the game. Until its arrival, goal-line technology, like hindsight and the IT guy at work, is never around when you need it.
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Ben Rycroft
Canada in tough for World Cup qualification
Last year, when Canada learned of its route to World Cup qualification, pundits called it a dream draw for the Canucks, pointing out the minnows they would have along the way.
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Ben Rycroft
Toronto FC's Montreal pilgrimage
This past weekend over a thousand Toronto FC fans hopped on planes,
trains and automobiles to find their way to Montreal for the team's
first meeting in MLS. If the league can learn to embrace them, these kinds of rivalries will help it grow.
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Nigel Reed
Winless Toronto FC severely limited in options
Get out of the way before it hits you. The revolving door is about to start spinning again in an attempt to prevent Season 6 becoming Season Sucks.
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Ben Rycroft
Misiewicz impresses on national stage
Michal Misiewicz looks to be a keeper for years to come after he raised many an eyebrow with standout performances for the Canadian men's national team in CONCACAF Olympic qualifying.
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Nigel Reed
Soccer in Canada on right path
When the Montreal Impact take on Toronto FC on Saturday at Olympic Stadium, it will signify a major step in the right direction for Canadian soccer, writes CBC Sports soccer contributor Nigel Reed.
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Nigel Reed
Canada's soccer team can dare to dream
It was a weekend for winners. Tiger Woods dominated the field at Arnie's place to register his first proper PGA victory since his world went up in smoke. Thomas Mulcair outlasted his rivals to become Jack Layton's successor as leader of the NDP and Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
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Ben Rycroft
Toronto FC's Adrian Cann battling back from ACL injury
Toronto FC's Adrian Cann could have easily walked away from the pitch after missing nearly a year with a torn ACL, but instead, he's about a week away from returning to action, writes CBCSports.ca soccer contributor Ben Rycroft.
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Nigel Reed
Canadian MLS teams are a big draw
They will say it was a fluke and could never happen again. On a single day, Canada's three Major League Soccer franchises were watched by more than 100,000 fans.
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Nigel Reed
Raising the bar for MLS referees
Admission of the problem is the first step to a cure. In the glass half
full world of Major League Soccer, there are never really problems -
only initiatives.
MLS, however, has a problem which needs fixing. Like anything
worthwhile, it cannot be done overnight but the League wants it known a
serious initiative is being launched to tackle the situation.
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Ben Rycroft
Montreal Impact season preview: Facing uphill battle
There is a joke in Canadian soccer circles that says that
the Montreal Impact's season doesn't officially start until they have fired at
least one coach.
For first-time head coach Jesse Marsch, that's a trend he's
hoping to reverse. CBCSports.ca takes a look at what Montreal needs to do early
and often to have a good first year in MLS.
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