Vancouver Whitecaps

[Captain Shamrock]

Was that Celtic???

That was the only thing that was good about Portland apparently........You've gotta love the hoops........

[Regs]

Whitecaps 0
Montreal 1

Well, that game just on Fox Sports World was, erm, interesting

Can you say "put your head down and hoof it up the park"?

Can you say "non-exsistent midfield"?

Can you say "bad way to showcase your team across the continent"?

Gutted by the loss,

~Regs.

[hard ballz]

I agree Regs! The Whitecaps had nothing going for them and I mean nothing. I thought Nico Caverro played well for the most part in the back but the Caps played alot of long ball and they seemed very slow compared to Montreal. That's 2 losses in a row!

Hard Ballz

[zenga]

According to the Province the Caps signed Johnny Sulentic!!!!

[Jinky]

Premier Westside's Heald to First Division's Sulentic for the one and only goal.

[zenga]

Just saw on the Whitecaps website that they will sign Corrazin.

[Fastshow]

sports | mytelus
Tuesday, Aug 05, 2003

Corazzin scores winner as Whitecaps beat Storm


CALGARY (CP) - Carlo Corazzin scored the game-winning goal to help the Vancouver Whitecaps beat the Calgary Storm 1-0 in A-League soccer action on Monday.
Calgary's Zuniga Nicolas Zuniga opened scoring at the 21st minute.

Whitecaps' Jason Jordan ties the game when Naill Thompson feeds him a pass at the 81st minute.

Just two minutes later, John Sulentic set up Corazzin to give the Whitecaps the victory.

Vancouver improved to 13-6-5 this season, while Calgary dropped to 4-17-3.



© The Canadian Press, 2003

Trust Niall to involve himself in something so complicated as a 1-0 win in which three goals were scored.

[Keeper]

90' - Whitecaps - Dave Morris scores in the 90th minute to bring the Whitecaps back to life.
02' - Seattle - Seattle stuns the Whitecaps with an early goal in just the second minute.

In overtime.

[Keeper]

Seattle wins 6-5 in Penalty Kicks.

[Hands of Stone]

Sat in the VIP section with Notty, Sarge and many others on a fantastic night in burnaby. Johan Hedburg was there to help with the kick-off, then he hanged with the boys in the garden for the rest of the night. The Moose is a great guy, I wish him the best in Vancouver, the guy sat with us, talked soccer and hockey, let us have a pinch of Swedish chew. If Can the Man does not get the job done this year, then I hope Johan gets a chance because he is quality.

As for the game, the WhiteCaps finishing was terrible, how many times do you shot over the bar, Kindel with 2, Nial with 2, Corrazin with 2 and Morris with 1, Dave did score the tying goal in injury time. Full marks to Seattle, they defended like madd men all game, and I think deserved the result. Tough luck to Clarky who had his PK saved, it was bound to happen some time, all the shoters scored until Jeff.

Great night at Swangard, until next year.
The pints were $2, and I did have at least 6.

hos

[Regs]

Did anyone see the little tidbit in the Vancouver Sun on Saturday about 2 Whitecap employees being let go?

Lennard Bobbaduzzi was quoted as saying something about the way the company is growing at such a fast rate was the reason. So you let people go that have helped for so long?

I think Peter may have some inside scoop on this [as well as a recently registered TTPer that was one of the canned former employees].

Cheers,

~Regs.

[Peter]

That just about severs the Westside/Whitecaps ties alright, what with Ollie playing for Indo and all...just about.

[cerebral smallsy]

VANCOUVER -- The Vancouver Whitecaps chose SFU forward Kevin Crouch, NAIA Region 1 player of the year, with the 12th pick of the A-League college soccer draft Wednesday.

Crouch lead the Clan in scoring with 12 goals and six assists.

UBC defender Aaron Richer was the first local product to go in the draft, chosen third overall by Calgary. Richer, a Vancouver native named CIS player of the year last year, scored three goals in 2003 and played every minute of the Thunderbird season.

The Whitecaps went with University of Victoria goalkeeper Jordan Robinson in the second round.

this slipped quietly under the radar...unless i missed a post on the subject.
would have been nice to have him around for provincials, but congrats to richer on being drafted...condolences with respect to the team that drafted him though.

[knvb]

How bad could he be?


He stopped the meg after all.

[john]

Originally posted by cerebral smallsy

would have been nice to have him around for provincials

I am sure that is what camp Inter are thinking

[cerebral smallsy]

i know a previous link was given with respect to whitecaps players until 84'. i came across this list that includes all players from whitecaps through 86er's back to whitecaps of present.

Leagues - NASL 74-84; CSL 87-92; A-League 93-96; USL A-League 97-present.

Player/Year

Alberts, Robert 75-76
Antulov, John 90-91
Aujla, Gary 89-90
Aujla, Rob 89
Aunger, Geoff 87;93;95
Ayre, Garry 77-78
Ball, Alan 79-80
Barling, Brent 80-81
Barnetson, Alex 83
Bason, Brian 77
Batista, Carlos 92-93
Beardsley, Peter 81-83
Belfiore, Ivano 87-89
Bennett, Chris 74
Berg, Nico 92;95-02
Bodnark, Richard 99
Bolitho, Bob 77-80
Bowman, Cam 88-89
Bradshaw, Paul 84
Breure, Cory 93
Bridge, Ian 84
Buckley, Liam 81
Budd, Brian 74-77
Burns, Stephen 90-91
Campbell, Bobby 78
Cameron, Kevan 02-03
Catliff, John 88-94
Celebrini, Rick 92-95
Chin, Gordon 03
Clarke, Chris 96-99
Clarke, Ian 96-99
Clarke, Jeff 97;02-03
Collins, Russell 90
Coppin, Spencer 98-02
Corazzin, Carlo 93;03
Craveiro, Chris 02-03
Craveiro, Nico 02-03
Craven, John 78-80
Cross, David 83-84
Dailly, Paul 95-01;03
Dalrymple, Craig 97-98
Daniel, Peter 78-79
Dasovic, Nick 95-96;02-03
Davidson, Lee 87
Deacon, Joe 98
Dearden, Barry 84
D'Onofrio, Carmen 99-00
Dolan, Paul 88;90-98
Dodd, Mike 93-96;98
Easton, Jim 87;89;92-94
Ellett, Neil 74-75
Elligott, Dave 97-98
Evans, Ivor 87-95;97
Felix, Terry 83
Ferguson, Drew 78
Finan, Mark 02
Fiorvento, Dave 91-92
Fonseca, Tony 99-00
Franks, Chris 94-03
Franks, Mike 98;03
Funnell, Tony 77
Gant, Brian 74-76
Garner, Dana 01
Gbeke, Charles 01
Gilbert, Nick 93;95
Gray, Gerry 80-82
Greco, Peter 75
Grobbelaar, Bruce 79-80
Habermann, Sven 88-89
Hall, Rob 99-02
Hankin, Ray 80-82
Hansor, Chris 01
Hardy, Tom 99
Harrison, Steve 78
Harvey, David 80-82
Heaney, Gerry 74-75
Heald, Oliver 96-98;00-03
Hector, Kevin 78-80
Henderson, David 81
Henderson, Lindsay 90
Hetzke, Stephen 76
Hinton, Alan 78
Hirschfeld, Lars 01
Holmes, Jim 81-82
Holness, Kevin 00-01
Hughes, John 87
Humphreys, Steve 78
Ion, Greg 88;90
Izatt, Keith 87
Jaskens, Rick 88
Jentas, Wayne 78
Johns, P.J. 83
Johnson, Glen 74-77
Johnston, Willie 79-82
Jordan, Jason 97-03
Karpun, Mark 89;91-92
Keay, Aaron 96-98
Keen, Randy 81
Kember, Steve 78;80
Kennedy, Brian 87
Kenyon, Roger 79-81
Kim, Tom 93-94
Kindel, Steve 97-98;00-03
King, Tiarnan 00-03
Knezevic, Jean-Paul 93;95
Kodelja, Victor 74
Koeppel, Horst 76-77
Kreuger, Eddie 84
Kristensen, Niels 76
Krol, Ruud 80
Kusch, Garret 95-98
Lenarduzzi, Bob 74-84;87-88
Lenarduzzi, Dan 78-80
Lenarduzzi, Sam 74-78
Lettieri, Tino 82-83
Lewington, Ray 79
London, Steve 01
Lorimer, Peter 81-83
Lowery, Jamie 87-92
Lowther, Shaun 80-84;87-88
Lyall, Geordie 99-03
Lund, Flemming 83
MacDonald, Steve 87-98
McAndrew, Tony 76
McCauley, Steve 96
McKinty, Doug 88-95
McLean, George 74
McLean, Ian 96
McNab, Bob 79
Macey, Scott 90-95
Magowan, Graham 00
Marini, Carlo 89
Mario Jorge 03
Marques, Alex 01-03
Martin, Mick 84
Mausser, Arnold 77
Mazzucco, Ralph 84
Meers, Arnie 87
Merkl, Rob 88-94
Miljanovic, Lui 90
Millar, Steve 93-94
Miller, Bruce 75
Mitchell, Barrie 75-76
Mitchell, Dale 77-78;88-90;92-94
Mobilio, Domenic 87-01
Morrill, Doug 93
Morris, Dave 99-03
Mrsic, George 89
Muirhead, Doug 88-90;96-9
Munson, Scott 93-94
Nash, Martin 95-96;99
Nelson, Paul 78-84
Nesin, Steve 79-80
Nickeas, Mark 81-84
Norman, David 81-84;91-96
Nusum, Sam 74
O'Brien, Fran 83-84
O'Leary, Pierce 81-84
Odinga, Norman 91-93
Oliviero, Giuliano 95-96
Onstad, Pat 87
Ord, Tommy 76-77
Osieck, Holger 77
Palmer, Charlie 74-75
Parkes, Phil 76;78-79
Parsons, Buzz 76-82
Payne, Ian 96
Piette, Jeremie 03
Possee, Derek 77-79
Rattee, Todd 94-97
Reed, Rob 95
Robb, David 80
Robinson, Brian 76
Robson, Craig 03
Roe, Peter 80
Ross, Micky 96
Sammels, Jon 78-79
Samson, Daryl 74-77
Samuel, Randy 98
Sandhu, Didar 98-00
Saundh, Sam 81;88-92
Scigliano, Joe 96-98
Scorse, Doug 74
Sebrango, Eduardo 99
Seddon, Nick 97-98
Shannon, Musa 03
Shearer, Carl 79-82
Shepherd, Paul 95-97;99
Short, Peter 75
Sibiya, Sipho 94-97
Siddall, Barry 81
Silvester, Peter 76
Skinner, Jeff 96-01;03
Slater, Mark 95
St. Louis, Terry 01
Stefanovic, Mladen 77
Steffenhagen, Arno 83
Stevenson, Billy 74
Stock, Jeff 84
Stollwerk, Peter 77
Sturrock, Blair 00
Sudeyko, Dan 87-90
Sulentic, John 99-03
Sumner, Richie 95-98
Sweeney, Mike 83-84
Taylor, Alan 80-83
Taylor, Gordon 77
Thijssen, Frans 83-84
Thomas, David 81
Thompson, Niall 99;02-03
Thomson, Gary 74-75
Tilley, Darren 00-01
Titotto, Guido 87-94
Titus, Rick 00-01
Todd, Colin 84
Towers, Tony 84
Tremarco, Marcos 94
Turner, Chris 84
Twamley, Bruce 75
Valentine, Carl 79-84;87-99
Valente, Alfredo 98-03
Vanis, Vlado 90
Veer, Andrew 02-03
Vujkovic, Marko 77
Waddington, John 77
Waldez, Paulo 98
Ward, Peter 84
Watson, Dave 83
Watson, Mark 93;95
Weber, Greg 74-76
Welch, Art 76
Whymark, Trevor 79-80
Wile, John 82
Wilkinson, Neil 89
Wilson, Bruce 74-77
Wilson, Les 74-77
Woolf, Billy 76
Young, Gregor 89;91-92
Yorath, Terry 81-82
Zanatta, Sergio 75

[sensei_hanson]

WHITECAPS ANNOUNCE DATES OF 2004 MEN’S PLAYER COMBINE

……Open Tryouts for Men’s team to be held March 1st – 3rd

Vancouver, BC - Whitecaps FC Director of Soccer Operations Bob Lenarduzzi, announced today that the club will hold a “Men’s Player Combine” to kick-off the 2004 season.

The Combine is an open tryout for aspiring and current professional players that will take place on March 1, 2, and 3 from 1:00pm to 3:30 pm at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex.

Whitecaps head coach Tony Fonseca is looking forward to identifying both local and foreign talent at the tryout. “Part of my role as Head Coach of the Whitecaps Men’s team and the club development program is identifying and developing players who are able to take that step to the pro team level,” says Fonseca.

In 1987, the Whitecaps, known then as the Vancouver 86ers, held an open trial and took a chance on a young Fijian prospect named Ivor Evans. The “Fiji Flash” as he became known, went on to become a crowd favourite and one of the club’s most dominant players.

“We are very excited this season about the direction and growth of the club”, says Bob Lenarduzzi. “The purpose of this open tryout is to facilitate the overwhelming number of inquiries and requests we’ve received from players with pro potential on a local and international level. We’ve attracted attention from players throughout Europe, South America and Africa who have expressed a strong interest in playing in Vancouver.”

When March 1, 2, 3 from 1:00pm to 3:30pm.

Where Burnaby Lake Sports Complex.

Fee:* $75.00 per player (Cdn). Players are responsible for their own expenses. For non-resident players requiring accommodations, the club is providing a special rate of $69.00 a night plus tax at its official partner hotel, the Burnaby Accent Inn. Contact Mike Anastasi at: (604) 473-5000.
Staff Players attending the trials will be assessed by the Whitecaps Men’s Head Coach Tony Fonseca.

Footwear The surface is field turf. Bring moulded cleats and running shoes.

Format Game situations.

Selection Players will be guaranteed at least two sessions as part of their registration fee. Some players may be released after the Tuesday session.

Registration:

Registrations will only be accepted on-line via the club website.

Combine Timeline:
Feb. 21st Application deadline.
Feb. 25th Combine fees due.
March 1st Combine begins.

$75.00 to train with a bunch of hacks for two days, and then get cut. Seems like a pretty smart investment. I can see it now:

"Doug, we really liked your hustle and intensity out there. Unfortunately, your $75 cheque bounced and you still owe room and tax charges at the roach motel we made you pay for. Even though we'd like to keep you around, it just wouldn't be fair to the guy who showed up in Chuck Taylors with a bag of 1500 nickles. I'm afraid we're going to have to let you go. We're trying to run a professional soccer club here."

[cerebral smallsy]

never mind the fact they have scheduled the open tryouts at the exact time that the majority of "local soccer talent" are scheduled to play league games...i've got a tough decision to make.

[club_i_champ]

Fee:* $75.00 per player (Cdn). Players are responsible for their own expenses. For non-resident players requiring accommodations, the club is providing a special rate of $69.00 a night plus tax at its official partner hotel, the Burnaby Accent Inn. Contact Mike Anastasi at: (604) 473-5000.

Are you fcuking kidding me? Lenarcnutinduzzi pockets this money and morons will actually pay it? Fcuking shoc-king. Cnuts.

[bravedart]

never mind the fact they have scheduled the open tryouts at the exact time that the majority of "local soccer talent" are scheduled to play league games...i've got a tough decision to make.

You play your league games on a Monday afternoon???

I think we sould wait to see what actually comes from these tryouts before we hack them. There may actually be some desire by the staff to see "who else" is out there, you know players they usually might not or can't look at but are still quite capable...you know like one or two from the valley!

Cash grab it may be but don't you think there are better ways that da management can get their hands on a few thousand dollars that would be less public. $75 seems like just enough to ensure that those trying out are actually serious about trying out so that they don't get every Tom, Dick and Cnut out to be seen.