By Matthew Gourlie Last year, David Clanachan climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro with is son Quinn. It is safe to say that the first commissioner of the Canadian Premier League isn’t afraid of a challenge. Clanachan, 56, feels creating the first successful nationwide soccer league isn’t a challenge, but a great opportunity he is eager to see…
By Matthew Gourlie After months of waiting, the Canadian Premier League made another substantial announcement as they introduced David Clanachan as their first commissioner and chairman. Clanachan, 56, has is a Tim Hortons executive, having worked his entire career at the iconic Canadian chain. “It’s an absolute honour to have been selected as commissioner of…
By Matthew Gourlie After a mere 298 days, the Octavio Zambrano era is over. The 59-year-old Ecuadoran manager’s reign will go down as one of the shortest and most bizarre tenures in Canadian men’s national soccer team managerial history. The details of how Zambrano went from the Canadian Soccer Association’s man to persona non grata…
2017 Gold Cup By Matthew Gourlie It was a familiar tale with a fresh spin for Canada Friday night. Canada exited the Gold Cup with a 2-1 loss to Jamaica in a quarter-final in Glendale, Ariz. Defensive miscues and missed chances cost Canada dearly, but unlike in many disappointing losses of years past, the young…
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