Canada has named its 50-man provisional roster for CONCACAF Olympic qualifying subsequent month, with 21 of the gamers coming from the three Canadian MLS golf equipment.
The listing contains 9 gamers from Toronto FC, seven from the Vancouver Whitecaps and 5 from CF Montreal. Eleven come from the Canadian Premier League.
Canada Soccer says 19 of the gamers on the provisional roster have already been referred to as into its males’s nationwide group camps and 16 have a minimum of one senior cap.
The provisional listing contains Liam Fraser and Jacob Shaffelburg from Toronto FC, James Pantemis and Zachary Brault-Guillard from CF Montreal and Derek Cornelius and Ryan Raposo from Vancouver.
Fellow MLS gamers Tajon Buchanan (New England) and Dayne St. Clair (Minnesota United) are additionally included.
The eight-team Olympic qualifying event, initially scheduled to be performed final spring, runs March 18 to 30 in Guadalajara, Mexico. It will decide two groups to symbolize North and Central America and the Caribbean on the Tokyo Games, whose soccer competitors is slated to run July 21 by means of Aug. 7.
FIFA has saved the identical Olympic males’s eligibility guidelines that had been first established, saying gamers have to be born after Jan. 1, 1997.
The qualifying event comes at a troublesome time with Canada opening its World Cup qualifying marketing campaign on March 25. Stars like Bayern Munich’s Alphonso Davies and Lille’s Jonathan David, each born in 2000, are eligible for the Olympic group however can be saved for the senior facet.
The first recreation of the Olympic qualifying event — and Canada’s scheduled pre-tournament camp — falls outdoors a FIFA worldwide window, additional complicating issues.
Group setup
Canada’s 50 man-roster can be trimmed to 20 for the event, together with three goalkeepers, no later than 10 priors to the beginning of the competitors. Players not within the provisional squad will be added to the ultimate roster however subsequent adjustments, resulting from damage, have to come back from the provisional listing.
Canada has been drawn in Group B, opening March 19 towards El Salvador earlier than going through Haiti on March 22 and Honduras on March 25.
Group A options the U.S., Mexico, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.
The prime two in every pool advance to the semifinals with the March 28 semifinal winners reserving their ticket to the Olympics.
Women’s Olympic qualifying within the area came about in January-February 2020 earlier than the pandemic. Canada, which received bronze on the final two Olympics, and the defending champion U.S. have each certified.
Provisional roster
Goalkeepers: Sebastian Breza, Bologna (Italy); Nikola Curcija, Le Havre AC (France); Thomas Hasal, Vancouver Whitecaps (MLS); Matthew Nogueira, CS Maritimo, Portugal; James Pantemis, CF Montreal (MLS); Dayne St. Clair, Minnesota United FC (MLS).
Defenders: Diyaeddine Abzi, York United FC (CPL); Michael Baldisimo, Vancouver Whitecaps (MLS); Zorhan Bassong, CF Montreal (MLS); Zachary Brault-Guillard, CF Montreal (MLS); Kadin Chung, Pacific FC (CPL); Derek Cornelius, Vancouver Whitecaps (MLS); Julian Dunn, Toronto FC (MLS); Mohamed Farsi, Cavalry FC (CPL); Marcus Godinho, FSV Zwickau (Germany); Cristian Gutierrez, Vancouver Whitecaps (MLS); Thomas Meilleur-Giguere, Pacific FC (CPL); Callum Montgomery, Minnesota United FC (MLS); Chrisnovic N’sa, York United FC (CPL); Rocco Romeo, Toronto FC (MLS); Frank Sturing, FC Den Bosch (the Netherlands); Karifa Yao, Cavalry FC (CPL).
Midfielders: Clement Bayiha, CF Montreal (MLS); David Choiniere, Forge FC (CPL); Aidan Daniels, Oklahoma City Energy FC (USL Championship); Lucas Dias, Sporting Lisbon (Portugal); Liam Fraser, Toronto FC (MLS); Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty, Toronto FC (MLS); Patrick Metcalfe, Vancouver Whitecaps (MLS); David Norman, unattached; Noble Okello, Toronto FC (MLS); Ben Paton, Blackburn U-23 (England); Harry Paton, Ross County FC (Scotland); Ralph Priso, Toronto FC (MLS); Ryan Raposo, Vancouver Whitecaps (MLS); Shamit Shome, FC Edmonton (CPL); Steven Simpson, Barnsley FC (England); Ballou Tabla, CF Montreal (MLS); Noah Verhoeven, York United FC (CPL).
Forwards: Theo Bair, Vancouver Whitecaps (MLS); Charles-Andreas Brym, Royal Excel Mouscron (Belgium); Tajon Buchanan, New England Revolution (MLS); Terran Campbell, Pacific FC (CPL); Theo Corbeanu, Wolverhampton Wanderers (England); Malik Johnson, Real Monarchs SLC (USL Championship); Jayden Nelson, Toronto FC (MLS); Easton Ongaro, FC Edmonton (CPL); Jordan Perruzza, Toronto FC (MLS); Jacob Shaffelburg, Toronto FC (MLS); Kris Twardek, Jagiellonia (Poland).
Canada’s qualifier schedule
At Guadalajara, Mexico
Group Stage
March 19: Canada vs El Salvador, Jalisco Stadium, 6 p.m. ET
March 22: Haiti vs Canada, Akron Stadium, 6 p.m. ET
March 25: Honduras vs Canada, Jalisco Stadium, 9:30 p.m. ET
Semifinals
March 28: 1B vs 2A, Jalisco Stadium, 6 p.m. ET / 1A vs 2B, Jalisco Stadium, 9 p.m. ET
Final
March 30
At Akron Stadium, 9 p.m. ET