If you can’t find news did the game ever happen?

January 31st, 2008 | by: Kyle | Comments(5)

Well supposedly the game between Canada versus Martinique occurred last night but you would not know if you were a Canadian soccer fan as no information during or after the game really has been found. If you were trying to figure out what time the game started, good luck, even the betting companies couldn’t even tell you. Yes I spend a lot of time on livescore, and for once it wasn’t giving live updates on the score, it just gave the wonderful question mark (?) of is the game happening.

So suffice to say last night there was no way of watching the game. So let’s fast forward to today. I expected that there would be some information coming out from the big sports websites, even if it’s an AP writer writing the same story for all of them. Nope not a glimmer of hope on that one. Then I figured well maybe the CSA would tell me something… oh wait it’s the CSA and there ineptitude at not being able to tell me when the game occurs in the first place, or what happens after the game (This is part anger, part frustration at trying to find anything on the intrawebs). Oh by the way I have been now pointed you to a lineup card about it on the CSA website, but wonderfully it takes forever to access, if you have 2 hours to burn and would like to try I have giving you the link to open it up. http://www.canadasoccer.com/documents/Match_trackers/20080130_CanadaMartinique_match.pdf

Anyways I would like to thank thescore.ca which was the only website that had anything on the game, and that was in the footy blog (Canada vs Martinique)… thank goodness it showed up in some forum. Which means I can pass along a bit of information though most of it was untruthful as it decided to bash the CSA like I am doing right now.

Firstly Canada won 1-0…. yes that’s right we won the game, which was expected of us, but it is the first time we have beat Martinique in their stadium and no extra time was needed. Your goal scorer was none other than Dwayne De Rosario. The rest of the starting roster is as follows:

1 Pat Onstad
2 Tyler Rosenlund
3 Paris Nakajima-Farran
4 Adrian Cann
5 Marco Reda
6 Adrian Serioux
10 Martin Nash
11 Charles Gbeke
13 Chris Pozniak
14 Dwayne De Rosario
17 Dave Simpson

And that’s about all the information I can find, if I find any video floating around on youtube I will post it up, if you find anything else. Let me know here on the blog, I’ll be happy to add it. Again congrats to Canada on the win, hopefully next time a bit more information will be more forth coming from the CSA.