Canada U-20 men's national soccer team

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Canada Under 20

Nickname(s)

The Canucks, The Maple Leafs,
Les Rouges (The Reds)

Association

Canadian Soccer Association

Confederation

CONCACAF (North America)

Head coach

Ray Clark

Captain

David Edgar

Most caps

David Edgar 39

Top scorer

Matthew Palleschi 4

FIFA code

CAN





First kit





Second kit

First international

Mexico 4-2 Canada

(Vancouver, Canada; August 16, 1977)

Biggest win

Canada 4-0 U.S.A.

(Toronto, Canada; July 7, 1991)

Biggest defeat

Germany 4-0 Canada

(Córdoba, Argentina; June 20, 2001)

Canada U-20 men's national soccer team, also known as Canada Under-20s or Canada U-20s, is the youth club for national soccer in Canada. It plays a large role in the development of Canadian soccer, and is considered to be the feeder team for the Canada men's national soccer team. The team has qualified for 8 out of 16 FIFA U-20 World Cups and five of the last six, and their best result came in 2003 where they reached the Quarter-finals.

The team also competes in the CONCACAF U20 Tournament, and many of its members are former FIFA U-17 World Cup participants. Will Johnson was among the veterans of the side to take part in the 2008 CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament.

1 Team History
2 Current U-20 National Team Members
- 2.1 Recent call-ups
3 Notable Players
4 FIFA U-20 World Cup record
5 External links

[edit] Team History

[edit] 1976-1996

Canada's Under-20 soccer team was created in 1976 as Canada's response to the newly created World youth Championship. The team failed to quailify for the inaugural tournament in 1977 in Tunisia, but they qualified for the following tournament two years later in Japan. They finished last in their group with two points, but they did manage to defeat Portugal 3-1. The next time the team qualified for a World youth Championship was in 1985, in the USSR, again they came last in their group with only one point. In the 1987 WYC in Chile, Canada's Under-20 soccer team put up a good effort scoring four goals, and tying Italy, however they still did not manage to get out of the group stage.

[edit] 1997-2004

In 1997, after failing to qualify for four World Youth Championships (as the event was known until 2005) in a row, Canada made it past the group stage. The team progressed to the second round ater a 2-1 win against Hungary in which a young Dwayne De Rosario scored a goal. They lost the round of 16 game against Spain 2-0.

After missing the tournament in 1999, Canada qualified for Argentina 2001 after winning the qualifying tournament based on home soil in Vancouver, British Columbia. At the finals, they finished last and were eliminated from a group including Brazil, Germany and Iraq.

Canada once again appearaned in the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship in United Arab Emirates. They qualified to the round of 16 where they blanked Burkina Faso 1-0, and in a rematch against 1997 conquerors Spain, Canada lost in the quarter finals. Iain Hume scored three goals for Canada including a direct free kick against Spain while Atiba Hutchinson was an impressive performer in midfield.

[edit] 2005-Present

In the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championships in the Netherlands, Canada were eliminated in the group stage after tying once and losing twice. One bright side of the tournament was Jaime Peters' and Marcel De Jong's goals.

In the build-up to the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup, as the tournament came to be known, Canada's defeated Brazil in the first game of a three game series, winning 2-1 in front of 14 000+ at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton on May 19, 2006. David Edgar and Will Johnson scored and Stephen Lumley made goal-line clearance to preserve Canada's first win over a Brazilian men's team at any level. Canada lost the remaining two matches 3-1. Despite an impressive run in friendlies leading up to the competition, Canada went winless in first round play without scoring a goal on home soil.

[edit] Current U-20 National Team Members

Head coach: Ray Clark

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB/Age	Caps	Club
1	GK	Asmir Begovic	20 June 1987	2	Portsmouth
2	DF	Nana Attakora-Gyan	27 March 1989	14	Toronto FC
4	DF	David Edgar	19 May 1987	39	Newcastle United
5	DF	Marcus Haber	January 11, 1989	17	FC Groningen
6	MF	Jonathan Beaulieu-Bourgault	27 September 1988	20	FC St. Pauli
7	MF	Jaime Peters	4 May 1987	21	Ipswich Town
8	MF	Keegan Ayre	4 July 1988	9	Hibernian
9	FW	Andrea Lombardo	23 May 1987	19	Toronto FC
10	MF	Will Johnson	21 January 1987	4	SC Heerenveen
11	MF	Simeon Jackson	28 March 1987	17	Gillingham
12	DF	Olivier Lacoste-Lebuis	28 August 1990	12	RC Strasbourg
13		Mozesh Gyrio^[1]	01 August 1988	1	Nijmegen Eendracht Combinatie
14	FW	Tosaint Ricketts	6 August 1987	4	UW-Green Bay
15	MF	Christian Nunez	7 July 1988	10	Montreal Impact
16	FW	Alex Elliott	24 April 1987	16	Univ. of Portland
17	DF	Gabe Gala	29 June 1989	29	Toronto FC
18	DF	Kennedy Owusu-Ansah	20 July 1989	19	Hertha Berlin
19	MF	Michael D'Agostino	7 January 1987	31	Blackpool
20	GK	David Monsalve	21 December 1988	23	Toronto FC
21	GK	Zach Kalthoff	20 November 1988	3	Southampton

[edit] Recent call-ups

All call-ups updated to June 1, 2008.

Goalkeepers

Player	Date of birth	Club	Caps (clean sheets)
Michal Misiewicz	10/11/1990	Plymouth Argyle	1 (0)
Adam Street	07/07/1991	West Ham United	1 (0)

Defenders

Player	Date of birth	Club	Caps (goals)
Pedro Czoli	10/10/1986	Cruz Azul	1 (0)
Myles Davis	06/29/1986	UC Santa Barbara	3 (0)
Adam Lang	02/09/1988	University of Washington	1 (0)
Stefan Leslie	10/23/1987	Trinity Western University	2 (0)
Landon Ling	10/08/1987	FK Jablonec	1 (0)
Joey Loreth	01/19/1987	University of Oregon	5 (0)
Stephen Lumley	04/16/1987	no Club	17 (0)
Paris Nakajima-Farran	08/11/1989	Naestved BK	1 (0)
Kent O'Connor	03/05/1987	FSV Oggersheim	15 (0)
Eddy Sidra	02/20/1989	Energie Cottbus	1 (0)
Alex Surprenant	09/04/1989	Montreal Impact	1 (0)
Daniel Tannous	04/13/1990	TFC Academy	1 (0)
Masumi Turnbull	03/30/1987	University of Kentucky	3 (0)

Midfielders

Player	Date of birth	Club	Caps (goals)
Olivier Babineau	07/12/1987	Fredericton Picaroons Reds	5 (0)
Ibrahim Baldeh	09/24/1987	Trois-Rivières Attak	3 (0)
Brandon Bonifacio	6/29/1989	Cambuur Leeuwarden	2 (0)
Hector Contreras	06/24/1987	Trois-Rivières Attak	2 (0)
Emmanuel Gomez	03/30/1987	Club Social y Deportivo Tristán Suárez	2 (0)
A.J. Gray	04/12/1988	no Club	9 (0)
Jovan Ivanovich	5/2/1989	London AEK	1 (0)
Selvin Lammie	08/3/1988	North York Astros	6 (0)
Jacob Lensky	12/16/1988	Feyenoord Rotterdam	2 (0)
Gavin McCallum	08/24/1987	Weymouth F.C.	4 (0)
Joey Melo	01/25/1989	Toronto FC	1 (0)
Kyle Oliveira	03/04/1988	UC Davis	2 (0)
Michael Pereira	03/09/1989	Providence University	1 (0)
Tyler Rosenlund	09/13/1986	Toronto FC	16 (0)
Sean Rosa	06/07/1989	FC Metz	1 (0)
Shaun Saiko	11/13/1989	Middlesbrough F.C.	1 (0)
Jarek Whiteman	06/28/1990	Notre Dame Knights	1 (0)
Cam Wilson	08/21/1986	Surrey United	5 (0)

Strikers

Player	Date of birth	Club	Caps (goals)
Massimo Di Ioia	06/18/1987	Trois-Rivières Attak	2 (0)
Derek Gaudet	5/14/1989	University of Alabama	1 (0)
Pierre-Rudolph Mayard	02/21/1988	Trois-Rivieres Attak	4 (1)
Daniel Revivo	03/23/1987	Toronto Lynx	4 (0)
Julian Uccello	10/30/1986	A.C. Sansovino (on loan from AC Milan)	3 (0)
Vladimir Vukovic	03/16/1989	FK Laktasi	1 (0)