Stephen Hart named Canada’s new men’s head coach
As expected, Stephen Hart was named Canada’s new men’s head coach. It has been expected for a while and the CSA finally does something right. The players all seem to like him (Will Johnson reiterated that fact when he joined us a few weeks ago), the fans seem to like him and it would also appear the CSA seems to like him. So that’s one thing the CSA has officially gotten right. Can they get something else right and move in a forward direction? Can David Hoilett be tempted to lay for Canada? Will Canada play for friendlies? Will Canada make the World Cup in 2014? I guess we will wait and see. In the meantime, it looks like the CSA might actually be making moves in a positive, forward direction.
Here’s the official release:
Stephen Hart named Canada’s new men’s head coach
The Canadian Soccer Association announced today that Stephen Hart has been appointed head coach of Canada’s national team. Hart will be in charge of Canada’s qualification efforts as Canada works toward the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™.
“Stephen Hart is the man in charge with the task to lead Canada to the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil,” said Canadian Soccer Association president Dr. Dominic Maestracci. “He delivers an exciting brand of football that has proven to be successful against our CONCACAF opponents. He will have full support of our country as he builds a winning team that will qualify us for Brazil in four years time.”
“I am honoured to be chosen for this prestigious and very important position,” said national head coach Stephen Hart. “I am fully aware of the expectation and look forward to the challenge of building a team for the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ Qualifiers and beyond.”
Hart most recently served as Canada’s interim head coach for the 2009 season. He helped Canada compile a record of four wins, one draw and three losses, including a quarter-final finish at the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup. In the group stage of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, Hart led Canada to a first-place finish in its group. In the quarter-final stage, Canada lost 0:1 to Honduras who scored on a penalty kick.
In 18 career games over two stints as Canada’s head coach (2006-07 and 2009), Hart has posted nine wins, two draws and seven losses. His 50% ratio of wins to games is the highest in Association history, ranking ahead of Barrie Clarke and Tony Taylor who each won six of 14 games for a 43% ratio. In those 18 games, Hart’s teams have averaged 1.33 goals scored per game and 0.94 goals allowed per game – both the second-best totals behind Clarke’s teams from the early 1980s (1.57 goals scored and 0.93 goals allowed per game).
Hart has been the Canadian Soccer Association’s Technical Director since March 2008. In this role, he oversaw the Association’s long-term player development program (Wellness to World Cup presented by BMO) and was in charge of directing and monitoring the national development teams, the coaching education program, the National Training Centres, and the sports medicine program. This vacancy will be filled in the coming months.
CONCACAF’s next round of FIFA World Cup Qualifiers™ is scheduled to begin in 2012, which will take place after the next CONCACAF Gold Cup in 2011. To date, Canada’s men’s national team has won two CONCACAF championships – the 1985 CONCACAF Men’s Championship (which qualified Canada for the 1986 FIFA World Cup Mexico™) and the 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup (which qualified Canada for the FIFA Confederations Cup Korea/Japan 2001).
The curious video of the day: The goal of penalty of a spontaneous one
The scene seems to be extracted of a trailer of a next premiere in the movies. The reality is well different, so different that far from being a fiction, the written down penalty goal for a spontaneous one in the Russian League is so real as the life itself.
It was in the meeting Saturn – Spartak with the Brazilian Alex waiting a few seconds to materialize the penalty that was passing to theirs trained by Valeri Karpin. Of nothing went out a spontaneous one that with left leg and before the astonished look of the presents he executed, not in a brilliant way, the maximum sorrow.
Simultaneously that was covering the field without ton they are not even it seemed to me to understand as with his right arm dirijía to sé who and Nazi was executing the greeting. Behind the "author" of the penalty it went out different luminously whose only mission was to cover the way on that there had trodden the protagonist of the maximum sorrow. A quite ridiculous image where he was throwing in absence two small details: a safety minimum, because to see something like that in any important League is unthinkable, and the most important, the music of Benny Hill of fund.
Route | Newspaper Marca
Video | FCBamigoO
Day 3: the League wins for heavy defeat
With a little of delay, but here there comes the analysis of the day of this last weekend. On horseback between the third one and the fourth one there came to me the moment to take a good cold, and the fact is that this radical change of the temperatures I do not believe that it has been good for anybody. Nevertheless, to remain with fever in bed to I allowed to see this week end more divided than of custom.
And I drink with all that one that the derbi of Manchester saw, and throw a currency to the air: why are almost all the references to this party highly positive, one speaks about partidazo and about healthy envy if there was no game in the midfield? He was an authentic streetwalker, a siege between goal and goal, without any piece that was controlling the rhythm and with moves that were not overcoming four consecutive passes. In what do we stay? Do we like the parties of seven goals with rhythm frantic or parties of two or three so many people with game and break in the midfield? Less evil that in Spain we have to the Barca, which gives to us of two things.
To ours. Since the holder prays, the League wins for heavy defeat. It is difficult to me to remind a period in which our competition should overcome in number of goals noted down to the Premier, to the Calcium and to the Bundesliga. At the end of the third day, the teams of the League have perforated the opposite goal in 89 occasions (16 goals more that in the previous period). In England, Italy and Germany, when it concluded the third day (this week they have disputed the sixth one), 66, 76 and 79 had been the goals marked by his clubs, respectively. Numbers from which we can extract a conclusion: there stands out the ‘given one’ of our First Division.
A fact that does not surprise me by no means, if we bear in mind that Real Madrid and Barcelona have marked the sensitive to cold number of 21 goals between both in the first three days (to 7,3 goals for party). And if, also, two players of those who head the scorers table, Cristiano Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic, have marked in each of the disputed parties. And with Town, top goal-scorer along with the portuguese of Madrid, marking them to pairs. With objective information in the hand we can enter the everlasting debate, because opinions are for all the tastes. But, presently, the League wins for heavy defeat.
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The promising generation of ninety-two
When Bojan and company did a good European Sub17 they lacked time to come to the first team. That generation, whom I had called a generation Bojan, was rewarded when the first team of the Barcelona needed Bojan Krkic, when the Murcia did the proper thing with Dani Aquino or the Athletic one of Madrid with Camacho.
It turns out to be curious that two years later, with the generation of ninety-two, these have realized an European Sub17 worse enough than those of ninety, on the other hand more players have come to the first team and more soon. It might resort to the idea of calling the whole generation by his most talented soccer player, who well might be Iker Muniain, but I prefer to change the tone.
In pre-season a good number of canteranos of the year ninety-two, that is to say, with sixteen or seventeen years, already enjoyed parties in the first team. The agreeable thing is that most of those canteranos have made debut in the First Division and it even has someone back with the first staff.
Curiously, one that was not to the last European Sub17 was the malagista Edu Ramos, who at present is one more in the Muñiz staff. What is to say of Marc Muniesa, that it had his bitter début last year and more than demonstrated that it is a Money box weakness. The mattress-maker Koke or the zaragocista Kevin Lacruz also have the confidence of his trainers and both have already made debut with his respective teams, and it does not seem that it has been possibly. But undoubtedly the player of the generation of the nonseam and two that more the Navarrese Iker Muniain shines is, that is surely that it will come far.
One that is not in the first team is the Real Madrid supporter Pablo Sarabia. It is normal that it does not count in Real Madrid of the galactic ones since you cover with stars and canteranos is something that in the white house is scolded. I believe that the golden zurdito of the white quarry should be in the first staff more soon that late, also with Pellegrini at the head of the ship since I am convencidísimo that will be a player that he will like for four sides, of those that they go with the style of the Chilean technician.
When in the TV there is already no soccer (I)
It has not being the case during this week, but yes it is true that this month there have been other sports that they have occupied many hours in the television. We release in Notasdefútbol a new section a selection of other sports approaches the lovers of the soccer for when the soccer disappears of the TV set for a few hours. And they are great. And for it, what better that to sweep for house. In Weblogs SL we have other blogs who do not speak about soccer, and that I am sure that (if you do not know yet them) you will be interested in.
This week we want to share with you a series of interesting posts that have been raised in the rest of sports publications of the house. Moto22, RacingPasión, FueradeLímites and SaliraaGanar are part of the set of the sports blogs of Weblogs SL.
To start, to present an interview published in SaliraGanar to you: You does not the struggle-Real sound Madrid of the League with the duopoly that exists in handball, between Ciudad Real and Barcelona? Talant Dujshebaev, technician of the team of La Mancha, spoke this week for SaliraGanar. Part 1 and Part 2
In Moto22, a curious video that it is sure to the moteros that you the situation will sound. To the sure friend who him would not go badly a little of muscle, or already inestimable help of a Touré Yayá, a Zokora or a Cristiano Ronaldo.
I am sure of that many of you you dejásteis for the hour of Study Stadium the Mestalla appointment between the Valencia and the Sporting. And the fact is that at the same hour it was beginning an event that has hooked million Spanish. The final of the Eurobasketball 2009, where the selection delighted us with another title for our shop windows. Who would say to us that we might enjoy the selections of soccer and basketball like champions of Europe! The SaliraGanar partners have continued the Eurobasketball up to the Spanish gold.
The FueradeLimites partners bring an innovation over to us for those fans of the golf (that they are, and many). I am sure that Guti already has in his power this new invention of the world of the golf.
And to finish with the revision of this week, a polemic topic that it affects to the future of one of ours. The notice to Renault for the matter of Singapore 2008 and the expulsion of the chief of Fernando Alonso of the Formula 1, Flavio Briatore. I hope shortly we see, finally, the Asturian of red.
In Moto22 | We are going to raise the motorbike of the soil
In RacingPasion | HE ENTRUSTS It finds Renault guilty but it does not sanction it
In Fueradelimites | Kangaroo TV: if I go to a tournament I want one of those
In SaliraGanar | He interviews Talant Dujshebaev 1 and 2
In SaliraGanar | European Poland 2009: champions of Europe
