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VMSL Premier - October 26, 2008
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 Match Picks of the Week

Selected games to watch from British Columbia's top senior men's and women's amateur leagues.

Saturday January 10

VMSL - Croatia SC vs Metro-Ford Wolves
7:00pm Byrne Creek School, Burnaby - These are two of the top teams in the Premier Division.

Friday, January 16

VISL - Gorge FC vs Gordon Head Blue
 7:00pm Hampton Park

MWSL - TBA 

FVSL - TBA

LIWSL - TBA

Calendar

December 13 - January 20

Voting for CanadaSoccer.com Fans’ Choice

Saturday January 10

2009 BCSA SAGM & Awards Banquet
Delta Vancouver Airport, Richmond.

Wednesday February 25

Club Santos Laguna vs Montreal Impact
CONCACAF Champions League Quarterfinal Round
5:00pm Pacific, Montreal

Thursday March 5

Montreal Impact vs Club Santos Laguna
CONCACAF Champions League Quarterfinal Round
7:00pm Pacific, Corona, Mexico

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Vancouver Island SL - Men
Vancouver Metro SL - Men
Youth Leagues - Boys
Youth Leagues - Girls

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Quotable

Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he just like to set off the thought process.
Eric Cantona, French player

Today in Football History

05 January 1965
The referee blew for the end of a Football Combination match between Watford reserves and Reading reserves five minutes early. Following the intervention of a linesman the match was re-started and Watford scored two more goals.
(The Association of Football Statisticians)

5 January 2009

Marc Bircham hangs up his boots
Yeovil Town and Canadian national team midfielder Marc Bircham has announced his decision to retire from the game. The 30 year old has been out since the start of September with an ankle injury, and this has been the final nail in the coffin in an injury-ravaged spell at Huish Park.

Teibert, Lam-Feist named Canadian U-17 Players of the Year
Canadian teenagers Russell Teibert and Monica Lam-Feist have been named Canadian U-17 Players of the Year for the 2008 soccer season.

Impact extend contracts for Biello and Leduc
Two days before kicking off training camp, the Montreal Impact announced Monday that team captain Mauro Biello and veteran midfielder Patrick Leduc have both accepted contract extensions.

Montreal Impact training camp opens
The Montreal Impact gets back to business this week, opening their training camp at the Catalogna Soccerplexe in Lachine, Quebec on Wednesday.

Soccer star’s message links sports and studies - Montreal Gazette
To help spread his team’s message to students, Montreal Impact defender Gabriel Gervais has visited classrooms, trying to link sports and studies in the minds of his young fans. “That connection is pretty much the motto of my life,” the soccer star said in a recent interview.

Portland Timbers striker Chris Brown retires
After a 10-year playing career, Portland Timbers forward Chris Brown today announced his retirement from professional soccer. Brown was the Timbers’ leading scorer in his lone season with the club in 2008.

DeRo looking for 50% pay raise - 24th Minute
Rumour has it that TFC's Dwayne De Rosario is looking for a pay raise to about $600,000 per season. He would not be a DP though, the extra salary would be covered with allocation money.

Adrian Serioux to Toronto FC? - SBI
FC Dallas is looking to trade up to the number two slot (held by Toronto) in the MLS draft to select defender Omar Gonzalez. Canadian international Adrian Serioux could be dangled as trade bait.

Europe or MLS? - SLAM!
Young players eye opportunity, salary. The European transfer window opened Jan. 1, but thus far there has been very little movement. And that's good news for Major League Soccer.

Beckham set for Milan debut - FIFA
David Beckham is set to make his debut for AC Milan in a friendly against German side Hamburg on Tuesday, coach Carlo Ancelotti said.

Beckham explains AC Milan decision - Sportsnet
David Beckham said on Sunday his move to AC Milan was not just an attempt to secure his spot in England's national team, and promised to give his very best for his new club.

WORLD SOCCER

Official who exposed World Cup graft killed - SLAM!
A senior South African official who blew the whistle on alleged corruption in a 2010 construction project has been shot dead, the South African Press Association reported Monday.

Tickets on sale from autumn 2009 - FIFA
The first year on the road to the FIFA Women's World Cup Germany 2011™ was certainly a busy one. A look back at the past 12 months reveals a number of important measures and decisions that will form the basis of the continued preparations for the first FIFA Women's World Cup to be held on German soil.

Espanyol keeper attacks angry fan - FIFA
Espanyol's Cameroon international goalkeeper Carlos Kameni had to be separated from a fan during training on Monday.

How long must Chelsea put up with Drogba's arrogance? - Mail
Didier Drogba is just a very self-centered, arrogant, thoughtless and rude man, something that will not come as news to his Chelsea colleagues, who have just had to endure yet another of his regular self-serving rants to the media.

3 -4 January 2009

Soccer world keeps turning - The Province
The Canadian soccer world has just completed a year jammed with turmoil and trauma, with too little good cheer. What has just gone by will reverberate into 2009.

Down and out - but competing for Canada - Globe and Mail
Hell bent on generating huge profits and flaunting its spectacles from the Super Bowl to soccer's World Cup, professional sport addresses the times only rarely - and now is not one of those occasions.

Toluca rally, draw Morelia in opener - MLS
The sixth edition of InterLiga officially got underway Friday as reigning Apertura champion Toluca rallied for a 1-1 draw with Morelia at Pizza Hut Park.

Beckham to play friendly with Hamburg - CBC
AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti said David Beckham will play in next week's friendly with Hamburger SV and possibly against AS Roma in the Serie A on Jan. 11. Beckham is at Milan on loan from the Los Angeles Galaxy until early March.

WORLD SOCCER

FA Cup Fourth Round draw - The FA
The draw for the Fourth Round of The FA Cup sponsored E.ON took place at Soho Square on Sunday afternoon, where two FA Cup Final heroes picked the numbers.

Mersey derby highlight of FA Cup draw - FIFA
Liverpool will host Merseyside neighbours Everton in the fourth round of the FA Cup following the draw made on Sunday.

Barcelona puts it into cruise control - Toronto Star
Barcelona extended its unbeaten streak to 16 matches in the Spanish league with a 3-1 home win against Mallorca yesterday.

Forest upset big spending Manchester City - TSN
Nottingham Forest won 3-0 at big-spending Manchester City for the biggest upset in the third round of the FA Cup on Saturday and Southend scored an injury time equalizer to snatch a 1-1 draw at Chelsea.

Blatter favours Wellington's Phoenix remaining in A-League - New Zealand Herald
Fifa would give Wellington their "blessing" to continue being part of the Australian A-League if all parties wanted them to remain involved. "When teams from one association will play in another association['s competition], it's not a matter of the confederations, it's a matter of the Fifa executive committee... to decide if it's possible or not," Blatter said on Australia's SBS television.

Lei Clijsters, father of tennis great Kim Clijsters, dies at age 52 - SLAM!
Lei Clijsters, a former Belgium football international and the father of tennis great Kim Clijsters, died Sunday. He was 52.

Street beggar to star striker - Guardian
Eight years ago, when he first arrived at the orphanage in the southern Indian state of Kerala, Raja had never seen a football. Today he is a rising star of Indian football, a 14-year-old already being talked about by his excited coaches as a future fixture in the national team.

A new year, a new menu - FIFA
The thoughts of many football fans are already consumed by the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™. However, there is still plenty on the menu beforehand, not least its sumptuous appetizer.

This guy puts his mouth where his leg is - The Football League
Rotherham United striker Alex Rhodes has had a Nelson Mandela speech tattooed on his leg! He says the 142 word quotation is a constant reminder of his good fortune in progressing in the professional game.

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