soccer

Lakers a Canadian soccer dynasty

jmeagher — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:19:05 -0400

The Lac St. Louis Lakers dynasty continues.

The Lakers, who’ve performed better than any soccer club in the country at the Canadian championships over the past two decades, shone at the 2008 nationals again last weekend.
Marco Masucci’s under-16 girls’ team struck gold in Sydney, N.S., while both the U-18 men’s (silver) and women’s (bronze) sides also reached the medal podium.

Time to give soccer a rest

jmeagher — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:22:22 -0400

Whatever happened to soccer’s off-season?

Wilkinson helps lift Canada to opening win

jmeagher — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:06:23 -0400

So far so good for Baie d’Urfé’s Rhian Wilkinson and the Canadian Olympic women’s soccer team.

Canada, ranked ninth in the world heading into the Olympics, opened the tournament today with a 2-1 thriller over Argentina.

Wilkinson, a product of the Lakeshore Soccer Club, set up one of Canada’s goals by Kara Lang.

Read more about Canada's opening win here.

Euro fever coming to Lachine

jmeagher — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:42:28 -0400

Enjoying Euro 2008?

Well, young local soccer players are invited to score a Golden Goal of their own at a skills competition being held Sunday, June 29, at the Catalogna Soccerplexe in Lachine.

The competition is open to male and female players from under-13 to under-16. Another category is for older players: under-18 to senior.

Registration is at 8 a.m., followed by a skills competition (passing, dribbling, shooting) and other activities.

Soccer takes centre stage this weekend at a park near you

jmeagher — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:56:51 -0400

Ready for Euro 2008, West Island edition?

This weekend some 3,000 players on 192 teams are entered in the 20th annual Lac St. Louis National Outdoor Soccer Tournament.

Even though registration has dipped this year, the Lac St. Louis tournament remains the biggest sporting event of the year on the West Island.

It has come to signal the arrival of high-end competition for local intercity teams who’ll play hundreds of games over two days at 38 fields across the region, from Pierrefonds to Pincourt and points beyond.

Limniatis heads east to coach Impact

jmeagher — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:43:23 -0400

It was only a matter of time.

John Limniatis made the jump to the pro coaching ranks Tuesday when he was named the new head coach of the struggling Montreal Impact soccer club, replacing Nick De Santis who stepped aside to become the club’s technical director.

Limniatis is a former Impact defender (1993-2001) and team captain. But he is also familiar to hundreds, if not thousands of West Island soccer players and coaches as head of the Lac St. Louis region’s Triple-A Lakers and coaching development program.