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The Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum was incorporated by the OSA as a Celebration of Canadian Soccer.
Colin Jose
Colin Jose is a Canadian who has been writing about soccer in the United States and Canada for over 40 years. During that time his painstaking research and writing has resulted in a body of work acknowledged to be the definitive history of soccer in North America.
He was appointed historian at the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1997 and also serves as the historian at The Soccer Hall of Fame in Canada.
History by Colin gives you an insight of soccer history that is not known by the average soccer fan.
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Factoids: Great Reads Of The 21st Century: CSA Financials 2006
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Posted by rhi on Friday, August 03 @ 09:46:36 EDT (170 reads)
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GUIDE FOR Canadian Soccer Taxpayers
Any responsible democratic governing body would have released its financial report for public viewing long ago.
But not the CSA.
It didn't in 2004.
It didn't in 2005.
Yet here is the 2006 report in 2007.
Have A Good Read
CSA Dollar & Cents Report 2006 in PDF
Has the Canadian soccer taxpayer been satisfied?
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Factoids: History By Colin: Owen Hargreaves Man U Note
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Posted by rhi on Sunday, August 20 @ 11:58:51 EDT (145 reads)
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Article Courtesy Colin Jose, The Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum
Given the recent speculation that Owen Hargreaves might join Manchester
United from Bayern Munich, it might come as a surprise to some to know that if Hargreaves does go to Old Trafford he will not be the first Canadian born player to play for Manchester United.
That distinction belongs to Jimmy Nicholl, who was born in Hamilton, Ontario, February 28, 1956.
At a very early age Nicholl was taken from Hamilton, by his Irish born parents to Belfast where he grew up. In
1972, at the age of 16, he was signed by United as an apprentice professional and eventually played 247 games for the club in England's Football League and in two F.A. Cup Finals.
In addition, much like Hargreaves he did not play for the country of his birth, but the
country of his fathers birth, Northern Ireland. Jimmy Nicholl played 73 times for Northern Ireland including the World Cup finals of 1982 and 1986.
One other point of interest is that Hargreaves is not the first Canadian born player to play for England. That distinction belongs to a man called Edward Hagarty Parry who was born in Toronto on April 24,
1855. Parry played three times for England against Wales in 1879 and against Wales and Scotland in 1882.
It is also of interest to note that Hargreaves will not be the first Calgary born soccer player to play for a country other than his place of birth. John R. Little, born in Calgary July 7, 1930, played for Scotland against Sweden in 1953 and played his club soccer in Scotland for Glasgow Rangers winning Scottish league championship medals in 1953 and 1956 and Scottish Cup winners medals in 1953 and 1960.
Other Canadian born soccer players who have played for countries other than the country of their birth are: Joe Kennaway, born in Montreal, who played in goal for Scotland against Austria in 1933 and John Van't Schip, who was born in Fort St. John, B.C. and who played 41 times for
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Factoids: History By Colin: Romario
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Posted by rhi on Friday, May 26 @ 16:46:24 EDT (176 reads)
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Article Courtesy ... Colin Jose, Historian,The Soccer Hall of Fame
Yesterday someone sent me an e-mail saying that if Romerio reaches 1,000 goals he will be the second player after Pele to reach this total.
This is not correct.
Pele is number two, and if Romerio reaches
1,000 it is possible that he will be number four.
The man who holds the records for the most goals scored is a Brazilian named Artur Friedenreich. He scored 1,329 goals between 1909 and the late 1920s. Pele ranks number two with 1,279 or 1,280, while Franz "Bimbo" Binder of Austria is third with 1,006.
According to the Encyclopedia of World Soccer, Friedenreich was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1892, of a German father and a Brazilian mother. He started his career in 1909 with Germania FC in Sao Paulo, then moved up the coast to Bahia to play for CA Ipiranga, before returning to Sao Paul to play for Americano FC, CA Paulistano, Sao Paulo, and then to Rio de Janeiro to play for Flamengo. He played 22 times for the Brazilian national team and scored 10 goals.
According to the Encyclopedia and other publications Friedenreich is recognized by FIFA as being the greatest goalscorer of all time.
Franz Binder was born in St. Polten, Austria in 1911. Between 1930 and 1950 he played 756 games and scored 1,006 goals. He played 20 times for Austria and nine times for Germany when Austria was annexed by the Nazis. He played his club soccer for Sturm 19, St. Polten and for the great Austrian team Rapid Vienna.
Americans claim that the great Adelino "Billy" Gonsalves who was a member of the U.S. World Cup teams of 1930 and 1934 also scored 1,000 but this is very hard to substantiate.
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Factoids: Rocket Robin Looks Back To 1993
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Posted by rhy on Sunday, August 21 @ 15:24:48 EDT (220 reads)
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Article Courtesy of: Rocket Robin, Soccer In Toronto
Rocket Robin has followed and reported the pro soccer scene in Toronto regularly since the 1988 season when he started to watch the second season of the North York Rockets of the Canadian Soccer League.
APSL Week 20 - End Regular Season | 1993-09-13
I didn't miss a Blizzard home game this year but attendance shrunk from 1700 to 250 by the end of the season.
Blizzard also got a chance to pick off tired teams as many of their games were on Sunday afternoon after the Montreal Impact had softened up the opponents up on Friday night or Saturday night.
APSL Toronto vs Colorado | 1993-09-13
Colorado Foxes (yellow socks and shirts, black shorts, shoulders and numbers)
Toronto Blizzard (red socks, shorts, shirts, white numbers)
Attendance: only about 250 people on this day where it hadn't stopped raining about 1 hour before game time.
Sudden death overtime expected two 7.5 minute halves then shootout if necessary.
Toronto gets 8 points (6 for win, 1 for each goal in regulation)
Colorado gets 2 points (2 for their goals)
APSL Toronto-Los Angeles | 1993-08-24
Los Angeles Salsa (black socks, shorts, numbers, tangerine shirts with red slashes on right shoulders)
The cameraman said they don't broadcast the Blizzard games on local cable anymore because the Blizzard ran out of money.
I didn't see the Blizzard's Argentinian import Amadeo Gasparini even listed on the roster now. (Cost cutting?). Attendance was around 300 so no wonder.
The win gave Toronto the maximum 9 points available (6 to win, 3 for 3 goals). Los Angeles gets 1 point for their goal.
Blizzard move back into 4th place, the last playoff spot. However, the Blizzard have played
between two to four games more than their rivals so it looks like they've run out of games.
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Factoids: History By Colin: Eckhard Krautzun
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Posted by rhy on Tuesday, June 14 @ 21:43:59 EDT (262 reads)
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Factoid Courtesy of: Colin Jose, The Soccer Hall of Fame & Museum
There is an interesting story in the making at the FIFA 2005 World Youth Championship.
China has now qualified for the next round, and their coach is former Canadian national team coach Eckhard Krautzun.
Krautzun coached Canada from 1973 to early 1975, then again in 1976 and 1977, when he also coached the Whitecaps in the NASL. Later Krautzun coached Houston Hurricane and Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the NASL. He has also
coached a string of clubs in the Bundesliga and national teams in Africa.
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