TOMO DANCETOVIC BRINGS BRANTFORD GALAXY BACK TO LIFE…..Return to CSL all but complete

Tomo Dancetovic brings Brantford Galaxy back to life
Tomo Dancetovic brings Brantford Galaxy back to life

Tomo Dancetovic believes Brantford and the surrounding Brant County deserve professional soccer.

The increasing player population, with soccer now the sport of choice in the region, as well as the high interest by new Canadians mostly from Europe, all contribute to a need for a high level game to interface with the grass roots level which is here, there and everywhere.

Dancetovic recognized that while the region has been well served by coaches steeped in football and settling in the communities of Oakville, Milton, Burlington and Hamilton, the need for greater skills to be visible on the field of play will accelerate the game locally.

Now head coach and GM of Brantford Galaxy, the former midfielder with London City who brought his passion for soccer from the former Yugoslavia, is determined   that second time around for the Galaxy will be permanent.

Brantford Galaxy launched into professional soccer for the first time in 2010, won the Canadian Soccer League championship in the first year when Dancetovic was an assistant coach. But the team went into dormancy in 2012 and applied in 2014 to return as an active member of the CSL in 2015.

“Everything is coming together very well with close to 40 players under contract for our First Division side and reserve team,” said Dancetovic with a little more than a week to go for the opener for both teams on May 10. The reserve team will kickoff  first, an 11 am start against SC Waterloo reserves in the 11-game weekend CSL Soccer Fest at the St. Joan of Arc ground at Maple, followed by the First Division encounter against  Waterloo at 5.

The Galaxy has already developed relationships with the youth soccer in the region and plans to launch an academy division in September.

The CSL’s complete opening weekend schedule:  

CSL Soccer Fest  ‘15     

Saturday, May 9

10 am        Serbian White Eagles B vs  Burlington SC B               Second Division

12 pm        Toronto Atomic FC  vs  Niagara United                      First Division

2 pm          Toronto Atomic FC B vs Niagara United B                 Second Division

4 pm          London City vs SC Scarborough                                   First Division

6 pm          York Region Shooters B vs Toronto Croatia B           Second Division

8 pm          Milton SC vs Brampton City Utd                                 First Division                                                                                                                                                                    

Sunday, May 10

11 am         SC Waterloo B vs Brantford Galaxy B                       Second Division

1 pm           Serbian White Eagles vs Burlington SC                     First Division

3 pm           Milton SC B vs Brampton City Utd B                         Second Division

5 pm           Brantford Galaxy vs   SC Waterloo                            First Division

7 pm           York Region Shooters vs Toronto Croatia                First Division

YORK REGION SHOOTERS vs TORONTO CROATIA CLASH WILL HIGHLIGHT OPENING CSL WEEKEND

CSL FINALS PROMO 2014With just two weeks to kickoff there is high interest in the York Region Shooters vs Toronto Croatia game to be played Sunday evening, May 10, the second day of Soccer Fest ’15 – a weekend of  11 First Division and reserve team games in a near festive atmosphere to open a six-month Canadian Soccer League campaign

This first game of the season for these two Toronto area clubs will repeat a memorable CSL Championship encounter of last October 26 when the Shooters won the title in a 5-4 penalty kicks squeaker. The clash was described by fans on hand as being the most exciting game of the entire CSL season.

Following a scoreless tie at 90 minutes, York Region went ahead in extra time with a Richard West header from a cross by Adrian Pena, but Toronto Croatia tied the game with just four minutes remaining on a goal by Sean Brown. Then came the penalty kicks.

Darryl Gomez, former coach of York Region and coach of the winning championship team that day at Esther Shiner Stadium, who has experienced some great victories in the past in Canada and abroad, said recently the game was very special.  “It was the beginning of some serious coaching for me and to end the season and win the title following 20 games undefeated was certainly one of my special moments in soccer,” said the former standout attacking midfielder, now 37.

The Shooters have strengthened their technical staff with the addition of Carlos Rivas, the former Chilean international who became a national hero with a goal that defeated Ecuador to put his country into the World Cup in 1982.

York Region Shooters and Toronto Croatia finished one-two in the 2014 final standings and the game to be played at 7 pm will be the highlight of the opening weekend that will feature prizes and fun during the two-day event.

Admission at the ground is $10 for Adults, Children 12 and under is $5.

 CSL Soccer Fest  ‘15

     Saturday, May 9

10 am        Serbian White Eagles B vs  Burlington SC B               Second Division

12 pm        Toronto Atomic FC  vs  Niagara United                      First Division

2 pm          Toronto Atomic FC B vs Niagara United B                 Second Division

4 pm          London City vs SC Scarborough                                   First Division

6 pm          York Region Shooters B vs Toronto Croatia B           Second Division

8 pm          Milton SC vs Brampton City Utd                                 First Division                                                                                                         

                                                           Sunday, May 10

11 am         SC Waterloo B vs Brantford Galaxy B                       Second Division

1 pm           Serbian White Eagles vs Burlington SC                     First Division

3 pm           Milton SC B vs Brampton City Utd B                         Second Division

5 pm           Brantford Galaxy vs   SC Waterloo                            First Division

7 pm           York Region Shooters vs Toronto Croatia                First Division

 

 

 

 

Friendly Game April 25, 2015

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Scarborough SC vs Toronto Croatia April 25, 2015 7:00 PM

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CSL FIRST DIVISION SCHEDULE RELEASED……Six-month campaign to end of October

York Region Shooters - 2014 Champions - unbeaten in 21 games
York Region Shooters – 2014 Champions – unbeaten in 21 games

A full slate of six First Division games at the St. Joan of Arc ground at Maple, just north of Toronto, will signal the opening of the Canadian Soccer League season on Saturday, May 9, an almost six-month long campaign that will run into November.
It will be noon May 9 when expansion club Toronto Atomic FC will kickoff the new season with Niagara United as the First Division opener , an opening festival-like weekend known as Soccer Fest 15 to celebrate the opening of a new CSL season.
Another new entry in the CSL, SC Scarborough, will play the second game in the top division at 4 pm, they take on London City, one of the oldest professional teams in North America, which launched in 1973. Both Toronto Atomic in the first game and SC Scarborough will be fielding players here from Europe.
The 12 First Division teams will each play 22 games before the top eight in the standings embark upon the CSL playoffs leading to the CSL Championship, won last year by the host of Soccer Fest 15 on May 9 – York Region Shooters. The Shooters won the title undefeated.
Following the Soccer Fest 15 weekend, the teams will continue the schedule on Friday, May 15 with games on Saturday and Sunday, a three-day weekend pattern that will continue each weekend until a rare mid-week encounter on Wednesday, June 10. Then the weekend games resume on Friday, June 12 through to the end of the regular season.

Second Division games of CSL reserve teams will be announced soon.

 

Sat May 9 St. Joan of Arc 12:00 pm Toronto Atomic FC Niagara United
Sat May 9 St. Joan of Arc 4:00 pm London City Scarborough SC
Sat May 9 St. Joan of Arc 8:00 pm Milton SC Brampton City Utd
Sun May 10 St. Joan of Arc 1:00 pm Serbian White Eagles Burlington SC
Sun May 10 St. Joan of Arc 5:00 pm Brantford Galaxy SC Waterloo
Sun May 10 St. Joan of Arc 7:00 pm York Region Shooters Toronto Croatia
Fri May 15 Jean Vanier Field 8:00 pm Milton SC Niagara United
Sat May 16 Birchmount Stadium 7:30 pm Scarborough SC Toronto Croatia
Sat May 16 Centennial Stadium 8:45 pm Toronto Atomic FC London City
Sun May 17 Victoria Park 5:00 pm Brampton City Utd Serbian White Eagles
Sun May 17 Lions Park Brantford 7:00 pm Brantford Galaxy Burlington SC
Sun May 17 Warrior Field Waterloo 7:00 pm SC Waterloo York Region Shooters

NEW-LOOK CANADIAN SOCCER LEAGUE HAS NEW LOGO

CSL_final (2) (2)The Canadian Soccer League is about to have a new-look.
The familiar CSL logo, adopted in 2006, has been redesigned and will be on display in good time for the Soccer Fest ’15 season opening day kickoff on May 9.
“Our league has changed quite a bit in recent years and while we are looking to the future, we don’t forget those in history who were determined to develop a truly Canadian league, and we hope our new emblem reflects just that,” said CSL president Vincent Ursini in announcing the board’s approval of the new design.
The new mark was designed by Mari-Lynne Eastland Graphic Designs of Niagara Falls, Ontario, commissioned early this year to come up with a suitable design in time for the new season. The year in which the league was launched – 1926 – was a key consideration which the league decided to include.
The CSL was formed as the National Soccer League (NSL) with an opening game on June 19, 1926 between Toronto Ulster and Windsor Rovers and has steadfastly remained Canadian ever since.
The league became the Canadian National Soccer League (CNSL) in 1992, the Canadian Professional Soccer League (CPSL) in 1998 and the Canadian Soccer League (CSL) in 2006.

Harry Kane, Globalization Under Attack, on the Soccer Field

Last week, a 21-year-old soccer player named Harry Kane made a spectacular debut for England’s national team, scoring against Lithuania just 79 seconds after entering the game and then wheeling away with a look of joyous disbelief as a crowd of roughly 80,000 countrymen roared approval.

Mr. Kane’s unexpected emergence this season as the leading scorer for his club team, Tottenham Hotspur, has captivated fans — not least because he was born and raised a few miles from Tottenham’s north London stadium.

It has also made him a beacon of an anti-globalization groundswell that aims to restrict the participation of foreign players in England’s soccer leagues.

“How many other Harry Kanes are there in the academies of English football who cannot get a first-team game?” Greg Dyke, chairman of English soccer’s governing body, the Football Association, wrote in an opinion article published by The Guardian. “We are simply not giving young domestic talent sufficient opportunities at the highest level of English football.”

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