Estonia versus Canada

Well we have the big upcoming friendly for Canada on Wednesday, and they have some European competition to look forward too. The opponent is Estonia and the game will take place in the capital of Estonia which is Tallinn. Estonia which is found in northern European bordered to the East by the Russian Federation, and south by Latvia, while the north and west part of the country is bordered by the golf of Finland.

Canada and Estonia have played once before in March 2003, in which the smaller nation came out on top with a score of 2-1. Canada will hopefully use this game to help figure out the exact lineup they wish to use in their FIFA World Cup CONCACAF 2nd Round qualification for the 2010 World Cup. Since the game is in Europe they will have almost all of there European players on there roster for this game. Estonia is currently ranked 129th in the FIFA rankings while Canada is right now in 62nd place, squished between Cyprus and Belarus respectively.

General lineup as released by the CSA is as follows:

CANADA
1 - G - Lars Hirschfeld - Edmonton, AB - ROM / CFR Cluj
2 - D - Daniel Imhof - Smithers, BC - GER / VfL Bochum
3 - D - Mike Klukowski - Oshawa, ON - BEL / Club Brugge KV
4 - D - Andre Hainault - Hudson, QC - CZE / Sparta Praha
5 - D - Kevin McKenna - Calgary, AB - GER / 1. FC Koln
6 - M - Julian de Guzman - Scarborough, ON - ESP / Deportivo La Coruna
7 - D/M - Paul Stalteri - Brampton, ON - ENG / Fulham FC
8 - D/M - Marcel deJong - Newmarket, ON - NED / Roda JC
9 - M/F - Tomasz Radzinski - Toronto, ON - GRE / Skoda Xanthi
10 - F - Rob Friend - Kelowna, BC - GER / Borussia Monchengladbach
11 - D - Richard Hastings - Vancouver, BC - SCO / Inverness CT
12 - M - Issey Nakajima-Farran - Calgary, AB - DEN / FC Nordsjolland
13 - D/M - Atiba Hutchinson - Brampton, ON - DEN / F.C. Kobenhavn
14 - M/F - Dwayne De Rosario - Scarborough, ON - MLS / Houston Dynamo
15 - D/M - Josh Simpson - Victoria, BC - GER / FC Kaiserslautern
16 - F - Ali Gerba - Montreal, QC - GER / FC Ingolstadt
17 - M/F - Iain Hume - Brampton, ON - ENG / Leicester City
20 - M - Patrice Bernier - Brossard, QC - GER / FC Kaiserslautern
22 - G - Kenny Stamatopoulos - Markham, ON - NOR / Tromso I.L.

It should be noted that only Dwayne De Rosario is the only player currently playing in America that is going across the pond to play the game. Also to note Jim Brennan is not on the roster and I would be honest in saying that it should be no surprise, reminder you cannot talk badly of the CSA, they are great, they can do nothing wrong, running the federation in regions rather than nationally is the way to expand the program. Okay the bitterness ends now.

Hopefully I’ll be able to figure out a starting lineup in the next coming days and post it before the game. As per the norm is anyone has a link for the game post it, as soccer fans we can all benefit of it, and if it’s found I’ll try and do a live blog.