Canada U-20 men's national soccer team

Infobox National football team
Name = Canada Under 20 | Badge = Csa logo.png| FIFA Trigramme = CAN Nickname = The Canucks, The Maple Leafs,
Les Rouges ("The Reds")
Association = Canadian Soccer Association
Confederation = CONCACAF (North America)
Coach = flagicon|Canada Ray Clark
Captain = David Edgar
Most caps = David Edgar 39
Top scorer = Matthew Palleschi 4

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First game = flagicon|Mexico Mexico 4-2 Canada flagicon|Canada
(Vancouver, Canada; August 16, 1977)
Largest win = fb|Canada 4-0 U.S.A. flagicon|USA
(Toronto, Canada; July 7, 1991)
Largest loss = fb|Germany 4-0 Canada flagicon|Canada
(Córdoba, Argentina; June 20, 2001)
Regional name = CONCACAF U-20 Championship
Regional cup apps = 18| Regional cup first = 1973| Regional cup best = Winners, (1986 and 1997) |

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.

Team History

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.

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.

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.

Current U-20 National Team Members

Head coach: flagicon|Canada Ray Clark

Recent call-ups

"All call-ups updated to June 1, 2008.";Goalkeepers

;Strikers

Notable Former Players

*Nick Albanis
*Carlo Alberti
*Dave Angelini
*Andres Arango
*Robbie Aristodemo
*Richard Asante
*Robbie Aujla
*Brent Barling
*Dale Baxter
*Asmir Begovic
*Ivan Belfiore
*Wyn Belotte
*Nicolas Blicharski
*Guido Boin
*Gaspare Borsellino
*Paul Boyle
*Matthew Britner
*Francesco Bruno
*Brian Bullen
*Garrett Caldwell
*Jeff Cambridge
*Maycoll Cañizalez
*Robert Carpenter
*Rick Celebrini
*Davor Cepo
*Tomasz Charowski
*Gordon Chin
*Christopher Chueden
*Alex Chursky
*Rob Ciccone
*Pat Cubellis
*Gaspard D'Alexis
*Carmine D'Onofrio
*Marco De Luca
*Pasquale De Luca
*Kevin DeGabriele
*Niels Dekker
*Bryan Devenney
*John Di Pasquale
*Jason DiTullio
*Srdjan Djekanovic
*Billy Domazetis
*Terry Dunfield
*Waldemar Dutra
*Chris Franks
*Mike Franks
*David Fronimadis
*Sean Fraser
*Robbie Gasparini
*Jason Gibbons
*Nick Gilbert
*Peter Gilfillan
*Elliot Godfrey
*Gerry Gray
*James Grimes
*David Guzman
*Ryan Gyaki
*Pat Harrington
*Graham Hatley
*Tyler Hemming
*Richard Hikida
*Gavin Hobbs
*Larry Houle
*Dylan Hughes
*Tyler Hughes
*Desmond Humphrey
*Lucio Ianiero
*Craig Janc
*Steve Jansen
*Jason Jordan
*Burk Kaiser
*Alim Karim
*Simon Kassaye
*Patrick Kelly
*Steve Kindel
*Tom Kouzmanis
*Franco Lalli
*Chris Lemire
*Danny Lenarduzzi
*Nathan Li
*Thomas Lindley
*Frank Lofranco
*Jim Loguhlin
*Steven MacDonald
*Jason Maros
*Winston Marshall
*Jason Mathot
*Sita-Taty Matondo
*Devin Matthews
*David McCaig
*Steve McCauley
*Michael McGhee
*David McGill
*Doug McGinty
*Mike McLenaghan
*Doug McNaught
*Dave McQueen
*Scott McQuillin
*Pieter Meuleman
*Bruce Miller
*Mike Mosher
*Eric Muñoz
*Tristan Murray
*Lajos Nagy
*Miles O'Connor
*Riley O'Neill
*Giuliano Oliveiro
*Andrew Olivieri
*Rosario Ongario
*Victor Oppong
*Bernard Ouassa
*Brad Parker
*Brad Peetom
*C.J. Pesznecker
*Tony Pignatiello
*Rocco Placentino
*Larry Pretto
*Anthony Primiani
*Randy Ragan
*Ramy Rajballie
*Graham Ramalho
*Antonio Ribeiro
*Carlo Rivas
*Marco Rizi
*Paul Roe
*Bryan Rosenfeld
*Peter Sarantopoulos
*Carlo Schiavoni
*Michael Sephton
*Peter Serafini
*Jeremy Sheperd
*Garnet Sigurdur
*Franz Simon
*Stan Siorovigas
*Jeff Skinner
*Peter Sloly
*Ernesto Solano
*Chris Stathopoulos
*Chris Stewart
*Vince Stewart
*Ive Sulentic
*Mike Sweeney
*Pierre Thomas
*Justin Thompson
*Niall Thompson
*Guido Titotto
*Joey Todaro
*Lino Tomasetti
*Chris Turner
*Mike Uremovich
*John Vairo
*Taki Vohalis
*Igor Vrablic
*Neil Wilkinson
*Chris Williams
*Murphy Wiredu
*Troy Wood
*David Woodsford
*Neal Yeung
*Gregor Young
*Wojtek Zarzycki
*Rick Zenari
*Peter Zezel

FIFA U-20 World Cup record

*flagicon|Tunisia 1977 - "Did not Qualify"
*flagicon|Japan 1979 - "Round 1"
*flagicon|Australia 1981 - "Did not Qualify"
*flagicon|Mexico 1983 - "Did not Qualify"
*flagicon|USSR 1985 - "Round 1"
*flagicon|Chile 1987 - "Round 1"
*flagicon|Saudi Arabia 1989 - "Did not Qualify"
*flagicon|Portugal 1991 - "Did not Qualify"
*flagicon|Australia 1993 - "Did not Qualify"
*flagicon|Qatar 1995 - "Did not Qualify"
*flagicon|Malaysia 1997 - "Round of 16"
*flagicon|Nigeria 1999 - "Did not Qualify"
*flagicon|Argentina 2001 - "Round 1"
*flagicon|United Arab Emirates 2003 - "Quarter-finals"
*flagicon|Netherlands 2005 - "Round 1"
*flagicon|Canada 2007 - "Round 1"

Honours

Sport honours|CONCACAF U-20 Championship
*Champions|1986,1997

External links & References

* [http://www.canucks-abroad.com Canucks Abroad]
* [http://www.canadian-soccer.com Canadian Soccer Association]