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After 10 weeks of training, AFC Toronto should be well-drilled for its opening game in the Northern Super League. But coach Marko Milanovic knows some things cannot be recreated. Like playing in front of 14,500-plus at BMO Field. “I think it’s impossible to prepare the players for the nerves that they’ll be feeling. It’s hard to replicate that in training,” Milanovic said before AFC Toronto’s training session in the rain Friday at the lakefront stadium. “You can only hope that they’re going to use the crowd as a positive, turn those nerves into excitement and come out and show what…

CONCACAF has handed Canada coach Jesse Marsch a two-game ban resulting from his ejection during the third-place game against the U.S. last month at the CONCACAF Nations League. In addition to the automatic one-game ban for the red card, Marsch was given another game by the CONCACAF Disciplinary Committee “for unacceptable conduct towards the match officials and for delaying the restart of the match by refusing to leave the field of play.” The ban means Marsch will have to sit out the first two games of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, scheduled for June 14 to July 6. A Canada Soccer…

Marinette Pichon has never shied away from a challenge. Widely regarded as the first French female soccer star, Pichon also made a difference off the field by championing women’s and LGBTQ rights throughout her playing career in the 1990s and 2000s. Now she’s helping make history in Canada as sporting director for the Northern Super League’s Montreal Roses FC. “A chance to write a new story, a unique one, starting your own legacy in Canada,” Pichon said. “It was a very big challenge to say, ‘You know what? Start from nowhere. Just a clean sheet.”‘ The long-awaited Canadian women’s pro…

They have songs. They have scarves. And they have a name that says everything about their “caws” — Crow Collective. And come Wednesday evening at B.C. Place, they’ll also have all the feels when Vancouver Rise FC — the team they’ve come together to support —  hits the field for game one on day one of the historic Northern Super League launch. “I’m just trying to stay hydrated because I’m probably going to cry later,” said Mel Bostrom, Crow Collective member. “We needed this so long ago, and to have it now is giving me goose bumps.” “I’m just so excited to…

It’s hard to pinpoint the starts of dreams, or why they come when they come, but Diana Matheson’s vision for a professional women’s soccer league in Canada first shimmered through the tears of defeat. At the 2012 Olympics in London, Matheson and her devastated teammates watched the Americans celebrate an improbable 4-3 semifinal victory after extra time. The Canadians had been ahead, 3-2, after a hat trick from captain Christine Sinclair. A dubious Abby Wambach penalty and Alex Morgan’s stunner at the death felt, to the women on the field at least, like the end of something beautiful. Instead, it…

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The sun was shining brilliantly when I touched down Monday afternoon in Vancouver. I had been here last month but it was cold, rainy and frankly, miserable. But the sun beaming over the snow-capped mountains made it seem like I had arrived somewhere else. In a way I did. Vancouver’s BC Place is the location of the inaugural match on Wednesday of the Northern Super League (NSL), Canada’s first professional women’s soccer league, when the Vancouver Rise FC will face the Calgary Wild FC.  More than 10,000 tickets have been sold and there will be supporter scarves to the first 12,000 fans,…

Quinn, who has not played for Canada since the Paris Olympics, returns from injury for a pair of international friendlies against Argentina in B.C. during the April FIFA window. The return of the influential 29-year-old midfielder from Toronto is good news for Casey Stoney ahead of her first games on Canadian soil as head coach. The seventh-ranked Canadians host No. 33 Argentina on April 4 at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver and April 8 at Starlight Stadium in Langford. “We’re all excited to be playing on home soil in front of our fans in British Columbia,” said Stoney, a former…

The war of words over Alphonso Davies’s knee injury cooled somewhat Thursday with a conciliatory communique from the Canada captain’s agent. In the wake of Bayern Munich’s announcement Wednesday that Davies had torn his anterior cruciate ligament in Canada’s 2-1 weekend win over the U.S. in the CONCACAF Nations League third-place game in Inglewood, Calif., agent Nedal Huoseh turned up the heat by saying Davies “was not 100 per cent after the Mexico game [last Thursday]” and was “pressured to start the [U.S.] game by the coach [Jesse Marsch].” “Canada Soccer needs to do a better job managing these players,” he…