Int’l Friendly: Cyprus-Canada [May 30, 2009]

Date: Saturday May 30, 2009

Venue: Larnaca, Cyprus

Recent Results: Canada (LLLDL), Cyprus (WLWWL)

Notes: This will be Stephen Hart’s first match since being named manager, and the first game since the last World Cup qualifier against Jamaica. FW Tosaint Ricketts and FW Simeon Jackson are both likely to make their national debut. No players from the MLS were selected to the squad, which excludes regulars MF Dwayne De Rosario and D Adrian Serioux. D Marcel de Jong and FW Rob Friend are currently injured and will not make the trip to Cyprus. Update: D Paul Statieri is fit and will play.

Squad: G: Lars Hirschfeld (CFR Cluj), Kenny Stamatopoulos (Tromsø).

D: Adrian Cann (Esbjerg fB), Richard Hastings (Inverness CT), Kevin McKenna (FC Köln), Paul Staltieri (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Chris Pozniak (Dundee FC)

MF: Patrice Bernier (FC Nordsjælland), Julian de Guzman (Deportivo La Coruna), Nikolas Ledgerwood (TSV 1860 München), Issey Nakajima-Farran (FC Nordsjælland), Jaime Peters (Ipswich Town FC), Josh Simpson (FC Kaiserslautern), Tyler Hemming (Charleston Battery)

FW: Simeon Jackson (Gillingham FC), Andrzej Ornoch (Esbjerg fB), Tosaint Ricketts (Myllykosken Pallo)

Possible Starting XI: Hirschfeld; Hastings, Cann, McKenna, Staltieri; Nakajima-Farran, Hemming, de Guzman, Simpson; Ricketts, Jackson

Prediction: Cyprus 1-1 Canada