Canada Soccer News Update
New women’s team coach will work “within the culture” of Canada
Article by Steven Sandor
John Herdman’s initial press conference as the new coach of the national women’s team must have been music to the ears of those in the Canadian Soccer Association.
After years of butting heads with former coach Carolina Morace, after threats of player strikes and resignations, Herdman’s calm demeanour and diplomatic air has to have the CSA believing that it doesn’t have to be in crisis-management mode anymore.
Herdman lauded the CSA Thursday for putting together a great core of talent and emphasizing the women’s program. He spoke of ensuring that the players did the majority of their training close to their families and their fans, rather than secluded camps in Europe as was the case with Morace.
“You’ve got to work with the culture and within the culture,” said Herdman, an English coach who has spent the last 10 years in New Zealand, and coached that country’s women’s team at the 2011 World Cup.
Herdman spoke of keeping the women’s team players comfortable and making sure that young fans in Canada have as many chances as possible to see the national team play.
Herdman will be in charge when Canada faces the United States in friendlies on Sept. 17 and 22. He will use that time to assess the squad - and admitted he won’t have much prep time before the game.
“It’s a bit of a baptism of fire going in against the USA,” he said.
He then wants to meet with players and discuss the areas where Canada needs to improve in the wake of a disappointing winless three-and-out performance at the WWC. He believes the nucleus of players is there.
“I have to sit down with the leaders of the team and understand what the missing factors are,” he said.
After the assessment period, he’ll lead the team in Olympic qualifying In January. After the Olympics comes the big task - getting the team ready for the 2015 World Cup. As the host nation, Canada simply can’t go winless through the group stage again.
The chance of being the coach of the host nation was a lure that was too strong for Herdman to resist.
“It’s exciting for a coach to see a group of players, a team, reach their goals in front of their own people, in front of their own fans. It’s a dream come true.”
And Herdman understands the fact that Canada doesn’t have to qualify for the World Cup has its good and bad side. Knowing that Canada will play the opening game of the tournament on home soil means that Herdman can spend extra time experimenting and tinkering with the lineup. But it also can hurt a team not to have an edge going into the World Cup.
“We have seen some host teams struggle with lack of focus, by not having that qualifying pressure keeping the team in line.”
And while Herdman promises to run a program that’s more open, more accessible than Morace did, the footballing philosophy will be similar. Don’t expect a return to the 8-0-2 formation that was preferred by Even Pellerud, who led the team before Morace introduced the idea of playing the ball through the midfield.
“You have to move with the modern game,” said Herdman. “In Even’s time the straight-forward approach in the women’s game was prevalent in a lot of teams at that time.”
See? Herdman spoke of his support of Morace’s style, but did it in a way to not call out Pellerud. He’s a diplomat. And, after long battles between the CSA and its previous coach, a diplomat might be exactly what the women’s program needs.
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World Cup Qualification Recap: Canada vs. St. Lucia
Canada overcome weak first half to defeat St. Lucia
pheeeeew btw, phrases in parenthesis are my own additions
Canada 4 St. Lucia 1
Article by Steve Bottjer
The Canadian Men’s National Team kicked off what Canadian Soccer Supporters are hoping will be a long journey culminating in an appearance at Brazil 2014 with their opening World Cup qualifying match against St. Lucia today in Toronto. Canada went into this game as heavy favourites against a St. Lucian side made up pretty much solely of local players and semi-professionals. (Betting odds: Canada 1.09 Draw 11.0 St. Lucia 26.0)
Canadian National Team Head Coach Stephen Hart went almost exclusively with a starting eleven made up of players who have been playing regularly and logging significant minutes with their clubs. Lars Hirschfeld got the nod ahead of Milan Borjan in net and Simeon Jackson got his first start for Canada since making his debut in the English Premier League.
The First Half
The first half kicked off a large number of boisterous Canadian soccer fans in attendance and with the Voyageurs Supporters Group in particularly fine voice in the South end. Canada immediately went on the attack and almost scored in the first minute when winger Josh Simpson broke down the left side and delivered a cross that required some organized defending by St. Lucia.
In the 3rd minute, Dwayne De Rosario delivered a very smart and aware pass that set up Iain Hume to deliver a shot that required a big save by St. Lucia keeper Iran Cassius. St. Lucia almost scored an own goal two minutes later when a cross by Simpson was redirected off his own cross bar by defender Bernard Edward.
Canada opened the scoring in the 6th minute when a De Rosario cross redirected to the feet of Simpson, who banked the ball into the net off of Cassius.
With Canada looking dominant and fully into control, St. Lucia would stun the crowd by equalizing less than a minute later on a blast from distance by Tremain Paul that beat Hirschfeld in the far right corner. (Naturally, St. Lucia score right when I turn on my stream, naturally.)
That goal seemed to unsettle Canada to the point that the team look disjointed and out of sorts for the remainder of the half following an excellent start in front of a very pro-Canada home crowd. As Canada stumbled through the remainder of the initial forty-five minutes, St. Lucia delivered some physical, bordering on dirty tackles on Ante Jazic and Simeon Jackson.
Canada had a couple of decent scoring chances near the end of the first half, with Atiba Hutchinson blasting a shot from distance just wide of the net and Jackson fanning on an attempted volley in the St. Lucia box. (Cue existential crisis: We're not going... to draw are we? ARE WEEEE? NOOOO)
The Second Half
Canada regained the lead early in the second half when St. Lucia fullback Pernal Williams was called for a hand ball in the penalty area in the 50th minute. Dwayne De Rosario stepped up and made no mistake in finding the back of the net on the penalty kick.
St. Lucia had an excellent chance to equalize four minutes later when Kevin Edward headed a dead ball into the Canada box just wide of the net. (I had to get up and walk around at this point)
Canada would increase their lead just past the hour mark when Hutchinson made a fine pass to send Simpson in alone on Cassius and the Burnaby, British Columbia native made confidently scored his second of the night.
The home side almost made it a three goal lead in the 67th minute when De Rosario delivered a well placed cross that Iain Hume headed just over the cross bar.
St. Lucia went down to ten men in the 88th minute when Pernal Williams was sent off for his second yellow card of the match, as Canada cruised to victory on the back of a much stronger performance in the second half. Canada would add a fourth goal in injury time when Tosaint Ricketts sent a perfect header to Will Johnson, who easily tapped the ball into the St. Lucia net. (First int'l goal for Will, go MLS, Real Salt Lake, etc etc He was a bit of a drama llama at the beginning of the match by tweeting his disappointment that he wasn't starting.)
Post-Match Reaction
After the match, Canadian Men’s National Team Head Coach Stephen Hart both rued the large number of missed chances by his team while at the same time stressing that he never doubted that his team would emerge victorious. (which makes me laugh because ALL WEEK everyone was like "We don't know if we'll win, we'll try. Really hard. We'll win)
"I had complete confidence that we were going to win the game. I think people get caught up in the score and all of that, but it’s more important to play well and just win the game and willing to attack. It's what we did in all the practices,” said Hart.
When asked to describe what he said during the half-time break, Hart indicated that he preached patience and focus as the keys to coming away with a better performance in the second half.
"We warned them. We said do not try to play a 90 minute game in the first 10 to 15 minutes. We talked about that, be patient, things are going to happen for you,” Hart explained. We calmed them down and said that basically you are going to win the game. It's just a matter of getting the next goal and being patient and not giving them opportunities,” stated Hart.
Asked for his thoughts on the home support that Canada received, Hart was clearly happy to be answering the question in glowing terms.
"Excellent. Fantastic. (Goalkeeper coach) Paul Dolan was telling me he was getting goosebumps listening to O Canada being sung. It was beautiful.”
Canada Team Captain Kevin McKenna was asked if he thought that the team showed a massive improvement in its opposition when compared to the team that struggled to score goals from open play at the Gold Cup
"Yeah, of course. We created a lot of chances I don't know how many shots on goal we had, but we had so many crosses through their box. It was a game where we could have won by 8-9 goals, but we only scored four,” stated McKenna.
Canadian forward Josh Simpson indicated after the match that while he was happy with the result, he also wish that Canada could have put St. Lucia away very early in the match.
"It would have been nice to have put the game away earlier. That's what we were trying to do. But we're pretty happy with it. It's still a good win. Like I said, we wanted to finish them off earlier, but that's football. We can't always do exactly what we want, but we got the result and that's what is important,” stated Simpson.
Simpson was also asked to respond to an assessment by the St. Lucia Head Coach that Canada had delivered an average performance.
"Like I said, we could have been more clinical. I don't think we were average. We smashed them, so I'm not sure what he is on about,” said Simpson.
The Final Word: Major kudos to the home crowd at BMO Field
While Canada delivered a very underwhelming performance in the first half, the team responded well in the second half and scored three unanswered goals. While many had been expecting Canada to blow out the St. Lucians, the fact that the first half was so close was disconcerting. On the positive side of things, Canada scored three goals from open play and generate a large number of scoring chances with an attack that looked much more dangerous than it did in the Gold Cup. Ultimately, Canada got the win and they have now started off World Cup qualifying with a victory, as their quality won out in the end over a lowly ranked side. When the win is added to the fact that Puerto Rico and St. Kitts and Nevis drew 0-0 in the other Group D match, Canada immediately finds itself in first place with three points and the best goal differential of the four teams.
Make no mistake though, Canada will have to perform better on the road if they want to win their group in the type of fashion that will breed confidence for the next round of qualifying. And the while performance the team delivered today was good enough to best St. Lucia, Canada will need to be much better if it hopes to defeat squads like Panama and Honduras later on in the qualifying process. If Canada can build on the good things they did in this match then this match will likely be qualified as a building block for a team that got stronger and more cohesive as the qualifying process moved along. This wasn’t a perfect start for Canada, but it was a decent one.
While Dwayne De Rosario was named the man of the match for Canada, the true MVP in this one was the Canadian supporters, who were genuinely fantastic and played a key role in lifting their team up when they needed a boost to get out of the first half funk that plagued Canada following the St. Lucia goal.
Source
Game Summary:
According to OptaJack - Canada v St. Lucia - Goals 4-1, Shots 31-6, SOG 13-1, Corners 11-0, Possession 78%-22%, Pass Completion 91%-57%.
MLS.com summary
Scoring Summary:
CAN -- Josh Simpson (Dwayne De Rosario), 6’
LCA -- Tremain Paul, 7’
CAN -- Dwayne De Rosario, 51’ (PK)
CAN -- Josh Simpson (Atiba Hutchinson), 61’
CAN -- Will Johnson, 90+1’
Misconduct Summary:
LCA -- Pernal Williams, 8’ (Caution; Reckless Foul)
LCA -- Hiram Hunte, 64’ (Caution; Reckless Foul)
LCA -- Pernal Williams, 88’ (Ejection; Second Caution)
Lineups:
Canada -- Lars Hirschfeld, Ante Jazic, Kevin McKenna, Andre Hainault, Jonathan Beaulieu-Borgault, Julian de Guzman, Atiba Hutchinson (Will Johnson, 68’), Dwayne De Rosario, Josh Simpson (Tosaint Ricketts, 68’), Simeon Jackson, Iain Hume (Marcus Haber, 82’)
Subs not used: Milan Borjan, Mike Klukowski, David Edgar, Terry Dunfield, Jaime Peters
St. Lucia -- Iran Cassius, Kurt Frederick, Bernard Edward (Fabian Joseph, 29’), Nathan Justin, Pernal Williams, Zaine Pierre (Cliff Valcin, 68’), Hiram Hunte, Guy George (Kevin Edward,50’), Tremain Paul, Enderson George, Jamil Joseph
Subs not used: Pessius Polius, Kevin Edward, Rickson Agustin, Terran John
Referee: Jair Marrufo (USA)
Referee’s Assistants: Charles Morgante, Adam Wienckowski (USA)
4th Official: Terry Vaughn (USA)
Attendance: 11,500
Weather: Cloudy and 82 degrees (phew, didn't have to borrow the MLSE weather machine)
Some videos courtesy of CanadaSoccerTv:
Post-game with head coach Stephen Hart
Post-game interviews with Atiba Hutchinson, Dwayne de Rosario, Kevin McKenna, Jonathan Beaulieu-Bourgault
Training
TheScore.com wrap up:
Pictures courtesy of CanadaSoccer Flickr and Day Life (obvious Canadian bias is obvious. And these aren't going to be in chronological order because I am sleepy)
Okay fine, I'll try to put them in order. No witty captions though!
Top Row: (L-R) Karl LagerfeldLars Hirschfeld, Atiba Hutchinson, Andre Hainault, Josh Simpson, Dwayne de Rosario, Ante Jazic
Bottom Row: (L-R) Julian de Guzman, Iain Hume, Jonathan Beaulieu-Bourgault, Simeon Jackson, Kevin McKenna
:')
Thank you, have a nice night! Allez les rouges!
Oh, and if you were there, post pics/stories/whatever in the comments :)
Article by Steven Sandor
John Herdman’s initial press conference as the new coach of the national women’s team must have been music to the ears of those in the Canadian Soccer Association.
After years of butting heads with former coach Carolina Morace, after threats of player strikes and resignations, Herdman’s calm demeanour and diplomatic air has to have the CSA believing that it doesn’t have to be in crisis-management mode anymore.
Herdman lauded the CSA Thursday for putting together a great core of talent and emphasizing the women’s program. He spoke of ensuring that the players did the majority of their training close to their families and their fans, rather than secluded camps in Europe as was the case with Morace.
“You’ve got to work with the culture and within the culture,” said Herdman, an English coach who has spent the last 10 years in New Zealand, and coached that country’s women’s team at the 2011 World Cup.
Herdman spoke of keeping the women’s team players comfortable and making sure that young fans in Canada have as many chances as possible to see the national team play.
Herdman will be in charge when Canada faces the United States in friendlies on Sept. 17 and 22. He will use that time to assess the squad - and admitted he won’t have much prep time before the game.
“It’s a bit of a baptism of fire going in against the USA,” he said.
He then wants to meet with players and discuss the areas where Canada needs to improve in the wake of a disappointing winless three-and-out performance at the WWC. He believes the nucleus of players is there.
“I have to sit down with the leaders of the team and understand what the missing factors are,” he said.
After the assessment period, he’ll lead the team in Olympic qualifying In January. After the Olympics comes the big task - getting the team ready for the 2015 World Cup. As the host nation, Canada simply can’t go winless through the group stage again.
The chance of being the coach of the host nation was a lure that was too strong for Herdman to resist.
“It’s exciting for a coach to see a group of players, a team, reach their goals in front of their own people, in front of their own fans. It’s a dream come true.”
And Herdman understands the fact that Canada doesn’t have to qualify for the World Cup has its good and bad side. Knowing that Canada will play the opening game of the tournament on home soil means that Herdman can spend extra time experimenting and tinkering with the lineup. But it also can hurt a team not to have an edge going into the World Cup.
“We have seen some host teams struggle with lack of focus, by not having that qualifying pressure keeping the team in line.”
And while Herdman promises to run a program that’s more open, more accessible than Morace did, the footballing philosophy will be similar. Don’t expect a return to the 8-0-2 formation that was preferred by Even Pellerud, who led the team before Morace introduced the idea of playing the ball through the midfield.
“You have to move with the modern game,” said Herdman. “In Even’s time the straight-forward approach in the women’s game was prevalent in a lot of teams at that time.”
See? Herdman spoke of his support of Morace’s style, but did it in a way to not call out Pellerud. He’s a diplomat. And, after long battles between the CSA and its previous coach, a diplomat might be exactly what the women’s program needs.
Source
World Cup Qualification Recap: Canada vs. St. Lucia
Canada overcome weak first half to defeat St. Lucia
pheeeeew btw, phrases in parenthesis are my own additions
Canada 4 St. Lucia 1
Click to viewArticle by Steve Bottjer
The Canadian Men’s National Team kicked off what Canadian Soccer Supporters are hoping will be a long journey culminating in an appearance at Brazil 2014 with their opening World Cup qualifying match against St. Lucia today in Toronto. Canada went into this game as heavy favourites against a St. Lucian side made up pretty much solely of local players and semi-professionals. (Betting odds: Canada 1.09 Draw 11.0 St. Lucia 26.0)
Canadian National Team Head Coach Stephen Hart went almost exclusively with a starting eleven made up of players who have been playing regularly and logging significant minutes with their clubs. Lars Hirschfeld got the nod ahead of Milan Borjan in net and Simeon Jackson got his first start for Canada since making his debut in the English Premier League.
The First Half
The first half kicked off a large number of boisterous Canadian soccer fans in attendance and with the Voyageurs Supporters Group in particularly fine voice in the South end. Canada immediately went on the attack and almost scored in the first minute when winger Josh Simpson broke down the left side and delivered a cross that required some organized defending by St. Lucia.
In the 3rd minute, Dwayne De Rosario delivered a very smart and aware pass that set up Iain Hume to deliver a shot that required a big save by St. Lucia keeper Iran Cassius. St. Lucia almost scored an own goal two minutes later when a cross by Simpson was redirected off his own cross bar by defender Bernard Edward.
Canada opened the scoring in the 6th minute when a De Rosario cross redirected to the feet of Simpson, who banked the ball into the net off of Cassius.
With Canada looking dominant and fully into control, St. Lucia would stun the crowd by equalizing less than a minute later on a blast from distance by Tremain Paul that beat Hirschfeld in the far right corner. (Naturally, St. Lucia score right when I turn on my stream, naturally.)
That goal seemed to unsettle Canada to the point that the team look disjointed and out of sorts for the remainder of the half following an excellent start in front of a very pro-Canada home crowd. As Canada stumbled through the remainder of the initial forty-five minutes, St. Lucia delivered some physical, bordering on dirty tackles on Ante Jazic and Simeon Jackson.
Canada had a couple of decent scoring chances near the end of the first half, with Atiba Hutchinson blasting a shot from distance just wide of the net and Jackson fanning on an attempted volley in the St. Lucia box. (Cue existential crisis: We're not going... to draw are we? ARE WEEEE? NOOOO)
The Second Half
Canada regained the lead early in the second half when St. Lucia fullback Pernal Williams was called for a hand ball in the penalty area in the 50th minute. Dwayne De Rosario stepped up and made no mistake in finding the back of the net on the penalty kick.
St. Lucia had an excellent chance to equalize four minutes later when Kevin Edward headed a dead ball into the Canada box just wide of the net. (I had to get up and walk around at this point)
Canada would increase their lead just past the hour mark when Hutchinson made a fine pass to send Simpson in alone on Cassius and the Burnaby, British Columbia native made confidently scored his second of the night.
The home side almost made it a three goal lead in the 67th minute when De Rosario delivered a well placed cross that Iain Hume headed just over the cross bar.
St. Lucia went down to ten men in the 88th minute when Pernal Williams was sent off for his second yellow card of the match, as Canada cruised to victory on the back of a much stronger performance in the second half. Canada would add a fourth goal in injury time when Tosaint Ricketts sent a perfect header to Will Johnson, who easily tapped the ball into the St. Lucia net. (First int'l goal for Will, go MLS, Real Salt Lake, etc etc He was a bit of a drama llama at the beginning of the match by tweeting his disappointment that he wasn't starting.)
Post-Match Reaction
After the match, Canadian Men’s National Team Head Coach Stephen Hart both rued the large number of missed chances by his team while at the same time stressing that he never doubted that his team would emerge victorious. (which makes me laugh because ALL WEEK everyone was like "We don't know if we'll win, we'll try. Really hard. We'll win)
"I had complete confidence that we were going to win the game. I think people get caught up in the score and all of that, but it’s more important to play well and just win the game and willing to attack. It's what we did in all the practices,” said Hart.
When asked to describe what he said during the half-time break, Hart indicated that he preached patience and focus as the keys to coming away with a better performance in the second half.
"We warned them. We said do not try to play a 90 minute game in the first 10 to 15 minutes. We talked about that, be patient, things are going to happen for you,” Hart explained. We calmed them down and said that basically you are going to win the game. It's just a matter of getting the next goal and being patient and not giving them opportunities,” stated Hart.
Asked for his thoughts on the home support that Canada received, Hart was clearly happy to be answering the question in glowing terms.
"Excellent. Fantastic. (Goalkeeper coach) Paul Dolan was telling me he was getting goosebumps listening to O Canada being sung. It was beautiful.”
Canada Team Captain Kevin McKenna was asked if he thought that the team showed a massive improvement in its opposition when compared to the team that struggled to score goals from open play at the Gold Cup
"Yeah, of course. We created a lot of chances I don't know how many shots on goal we had, but we had so many crosses through their box. It was a game where we could have won by 8-9 goals, but we only scored four,” stated McKenna.
Canadian forward Josh Simpson indicated after the match that while he was happy with the result, he also wish that Canada could have put St. Lucia away very early in the match.
"It would have been nice to have put the game away earlier. That's what we were trying to do. But we're pretty happy with it. It's still a good win. Like I said, we wanted to finish them off earlier, but that's football. We can't always do exactly what we want, but we got the result and that's what is important,” stated Simpson.
Simpson was also asked to respond to an assessment by the St. Lucia Head Coach that Canada had delivered an average performance.
"Like I said, we could have been more clinical. I don't think we were average. We smashed them, so I'm not sure what he is on about,” said Simpson.
The Final Word: Major kudos to the home crowd at BMO Field
While Canada delivered a very underwhelming performance in the first half, the team responded well in the second half and scored three unanswered goals. While many had been expecting Canada to blow out the St. Lucians, the fact that the first half was so close was disconcerting. On the positive side of things, Canada scored three goals from open play and generate a large number of scoring chances with an attack that looked much more dangerous than it did in the Gold Cup. Ultimately, Canada got the win and they have now started off World Cup qualifying with a victory, as their quality won out in the end over a lowly ranked side. When the win is added to the fact that Puerto Rico and St. Kitts and Nevis drew 0-0 in the other Group D match, Canada immediately finds itself in first place with three points and the best goal differential of the four teams.
Make no mistake though, Canada will have to perform better on the road if they want to win their group in the type of fashion that will breed confidence for the next round of qualifying. And the while performance the team delivered today was good enough to best St. Lucia, Canada will need to be much better if it hopes to defeat squads like Panama and Honduras later on in the qualifying process. If Canada can build on the good things they did in this match then this match will likely be qualified as a building block for a team that got stronger and more cohesive as the qualifying process moved along. This wasn’t a perfect start for Canada, but it was a decent one.
While Dwayne De Rosario was named the man of the match for Canada, the true MVP in this one was the Canadian supporters, who were genuinely fantastic and played a key role in lifting their team up when they needed a boost to get out of the first half funk that plagued Canada following the St. Lucia goal.
Source
Game Summary:
According to OptaJack - Canada v St. Lucia - Goals 4-1, Shots 31-6, SOG 13-1, Corners 11-0, Possession 78%-22%, Pass Completion 91%-57%.
MLS.com summary
Scoring Summary:
CAN -- Josh Simpson (Dwayne De Rosario), 6’
LCA -- Tremain Paul, 7’
CAN -- Dwayne De Rosario, 51’ (PK)
CAN -- Josh Simpson (Atiba Hutchinson), 61’
CAN -- Will Johnson, 90+1’
Misconduct Summary:
LCA -- Pernal Williams, 8’ (Caution; Reckless Foul)
LCA -- Hiram Hunte, 64’ (Caution; Reckless Foul)
LCA -- Pernal Williams, 88’ (Ejection; Second Caution)
Lineups:
Canada -- Lars Hirschfeld, Ante Jazic, Kevin McKenna, Andre Hainault, Jonathan Beaulieu-Borgault, Julian de Guzman, Atiba Hutchinson (Will Johnson, 68’), Dwayne De Rosario, Josh Simpson (Tosaint Ricketts, 68’), Simeon Jackson, Iain Hume (Marcus Haber, 82’)
Subs not used: Milan Borjan, Mike Klukowski, David Edgar, Terry Dunfield, Jaime Peters
St. Lucia -- Iran Cassius, Kurt Frederick, Bernard Edward (Fabian Joseph, 29’), Nathan Justin, Pernal Williams, Zaine Pierre (Cliff Valcin, 68’), Hiram Hunte, Guy George (Kevin Edward,50’), Tremain Paul, Enderson George, Jamil Joseph
Subs not used: Pessius Polius, Kevin Edward, Rickson Agustin, Terran John
Referee: Jair Marrufo (USA)
Referee’s Assistants: Charles Morgante, Adam Wienckowski (USA)
4th Official: Terry Vaughn (USA)
Attendance: 11,500
Weather: Cloudy and 82 degrees (phew, didn't have to borrow the MLSE weather machine)
Some videos courtesy of CanadaSoccerTv:
Post-game with head coach Stephen Hart
Post-game interviews with Atiba Hutchinson, Dwayne de Rosario, Kevin McKenna, Jonathan Beaulieu-Bourgault
Training
TheScore.com wrap up:
Pictures courtesy of CanadaSoccer Flickr and Day Life (obvious Canadian bias is obvious. And these aren't going to be in chronological order because I am sleepy)
Okay fine, I'll try to put them in order. No witty captions though!
Top Row: (L-R) Karl LagerfeldLars Hirschfeld, Atiba Hutchinson, Andre Hainault, Josh Simpson, Dwayne de Rosario, Ante Jazic
Bottom Row: (L-R) Julian de Guzman, Iain Hume, Jonathan Beaulieu-Bourgault, Simeon Jackson, Kevin McKenna
:')
Thank you, have a nice night! Allez les rouges!
Oh, and if you were there, post pics/stories/whatever in the comments :)