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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. More recently, Canada jumped 29 spots in the July 2006 FIFA World Rankings to 54th in the world.

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Rebuilding phase

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. They are currently ranked 54th according to FIFA, having moved up from the 83rd position.

On June 7, 2006, head coach Frank Yallop resigned for a job with the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer. Yallop, whose record was 8-9-3 since his hiring on December 16, 2003, will be making a return to the league where he began his coaching career as an assistant in 1999 with the Tampa Bay Mutiny. Two years later, the former Canadian international took the reins of the San Jose Earthquakes and grabbed two MLS Cup titles in 2001 and 2003 before returning to Canada. Yallop has since been replaced by Stephen Hart.

Youth sides

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.

Lack of success

As in the United States, the Canadian women's national soccer team has enjoyed more international success than the men. The FIFA rankings for July 2006 have the men's team ranked 56th 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

Gold Cup record

Current national team members

According to the official site [link]

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

0 (0)

2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup 
Lars Hirschfeld
10/17/1978

Rosenborg 18 (5)

v Luxembourg, November 16, 2005 
Kenny Stamatopoulos
8/28/1979

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

Midfielders

Player Date of birth Club Caps (goals) Most Recent Call up 
Patrice Bernier
9/23/1979

Tromso 16 (0)

v Austria March 1st, 2006 
Jim Brennan
5/8/1977

Southampton 43 (6)

v Austria March 1st, 2006 
Julian de Guzman
3/25/1981

Deportivo 15 (0)

v Luxembourg, November 16, 2005 
Dwayne de Rosario
5/15/1978

Houston Dynamo 37 (7)

v Austria March 1st, 2006 
Rhian Dodds
10/3/1979

Kilmarnock F.C. 0 (0)

2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup 
Sandro Grande
9/29/1977

Molde 11 (1)

v Austria March 1st, 2006 
Atiba Hutchinson
2/8/1983

F.C. Copenhagen 20 (2)

v Austria March 1st, 2006 
Daniel Imhof
11/22/1977

Bochum 32 (0)

v Luxembourg, November 16, 2005 
Nikolas Ledgerwood
1/16/1985

1860 Munich 0 (0)

none 
Patrick Leduc
12/26/1977

Montreal Impact 3 (0)

v USA January 20, 2006 
Jaime Peters
5/4/1987

Ipswich 12 (0)

v Luxembourg, November 16, 2005 
Rocco Placentino
2/25/1982

Gualdo Calcio 1 (0)

v Spain September 3, 2005 
Adrian Serioux
5/12/1979

Houston Dynamo 12 (0)

v Austria March 1st, 2006 
Paul Stalteri
10/18/1977

Tottenham 50 (6)

v Austria March 1st, 2006 
Ive Sulentic
12/24/1979

FC St. Pauli 2 (0)

v Luxembourg, November 16, 2005

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Head coaches (ie. managers)

Former national team members with over ten caps, over eight prior to 1980, or six prior to 1970

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

External links

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